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Robert Heinz
German pharmacologist and pathologist, born May 11, 1865, Wüstgiersdorf, Silesia; died March 7, 1924, Erlangen.
Associated eponyms:
Heinz' bodies
Small irregular, deep purple granules in red blood cells due to damage of the haemoglobin molecules.
Heinz' bodies congenital haemolytic anaemia
Haemolytic anaemia of infancy associated with the finding of Heinz’ bodies in the red cells.
Biography:
Robert Heinz studied in Breslau, where Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain (1834-1897) was among his teachers. In 1888 he became doctor of medicine as well as assistant at the pharmacological institute, and was habilitated for pharmacology in Breslau in 1891. From 1893 he worked experimentally for some years in the university chemical laboratory in Jena as well as with Hermann von Tappeiner (1847-1927 at the pharmacological institute in Munich. In 1898 he was habilitated once more, this time in Erlangen for pharmacology and toxicology and in 1904 was appointed professor extraordinary, in 1910 also director of the pharmacological institute at Erlangen.
Heinz worked on questions of general pathology, inflammation, degeneration and regeneration of blood, and saw his main task in pharmacology to be the advance of pharmacotherapy. He introduced the dermatol and with Alfred Einhorn (1856-1917) the Orthoform. In his last years he worked on the use of colloid metals as well as extracts of yeast.
Bibliography:
- Handbuch der experimentellen Pathologie und Pharmakologie.
Jena, 1904-1906.
- Lehrbuch der Arzneimittellehre. Jena, 1907.
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