Gustav William August Josef Ricker (* 2 November 1870 in Hadamar (Hessen Nassau); "† 23 September 1948 in Dresden) was scientist and physician.

Life

Ricker visited the High School in Hanau, at which its father was an upper teacher. Starting from 1889 it studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of the cities Freiburg (mash gau), Munich, Bonn and Berlin. With the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann in Berlin it attained a doctorate 1893 with a thesis about "“comparative investigations over Muskelatrophie"”. Ricker was then at institutes in Zurich, resounds (Saale) and Rostock actively and enjoyed training as the pathologist. 1897 it habilitierte in Rostock with Albert Thierfelder (topic: "“Contributions to the theory of the at the kidney"”).

That the social-democracy intimate and catholic Ricker did not become probably because of its confessions successor of Thierfelder. It accepted therefore to 1 June 1906 the place as a director/conductor of the pathology of the urban hospitals old part of town and Sudenburg of the city Magdeburg. It supported the education of a medical academy here. The position as directors/conductors of the pathological institute holds Ricker until 1933, until it was retired prematurely after the seizure of power of the national socialists. Ricker worked therefore then as a private scholar in Berlin and Dresden. The society of the physicians in Vienna selected it 1937 to the corresponding member.

Ricker got sick with a container illness, which he had tightened himself with experiments with radioactive Mesothorium in Magdeburg and suffered from a neurological illness and diabetes mellitus.

Teachings

Ricker developed the concept of the "“relation pathology"”, with which he wanted to break the close view open of the Zellularpathologie justified by Rudolf Virchow. He saw the cause of diseased processes in a nerve procedure and not in a cell procedure. Ricker aimed off to release the pathology from the pure medical appropriateness to and to see humans as physical-psychological unit.

Ricker is considered, although he avoided congresses, as one of the most important pathologists of its time.

Honour

The city Magdeburg designated it in honours a road (Gustav Ricker road), lain in the proximity of its effect place.

The Gustav Ricker hospital Magdeburg were the hospitals hospital of the Sudenburg at the Leipziger road. With the formation of the full university versety the name was not continued.

Works

• Draft of a relation pathology, 1905
• Baselines of a logic of the physiology as pure natural science, 1912
• Pathology as Naturwiss. - Relation pathology - for pathologists, physiologists, the medical profession and biologists, 1924
• Science-theoretical essays for physicians, 1936

Literature/source

• Refuge Peter Wolff, Magdeburger biographic encyclopedia, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1

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