German physiologist (1847–1919)
Paul Grützner (ca. 1885)
Paul Grützner (April 30, 1847 – July 29, 1919) was a German physiologist born in Festenberg , Silesia (present-day Twardogóra , Lower Silesian Voivodeship ).
He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg , Berlin and Breslau , where he was a pupil of Rudolf Heidenhain . After graduation, he was an assistant at the physiological institute in Breslau. In 1881, he became a professor at the University of Bern , and in 1884 succeeded Karl von Vierordt (1818–1884) at the physiological institute at the University of Tübingen .
Grützner performed numerous studies involving the physiology of nerves and muscles, circulatory physiology , glandular and gastric secretions , et al. In the 1870s, with Wilhelm Ebstein (1836–1912), he performed important research involving the physiochemical behavior of pepsin in the digestive tract . Findings from their research were published in an 1874 treatise called Ueber Pepsinbildung im Magen , and was included in Pflügers Archiv .[ 1]
Grützner is credited with introducing a colorimetric method for determining the quantity of pepsin in a solution. Among his numerous written articles was an 1879 physiological study on voice and speech titled Physiologie der Stimme und Sprache .[ 2]
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