Franz Penzoldt

Franz Penzoldt was a German internist and pharmacologist, born on 12 December 1849 in Crispendorf in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz and dead on 19 September 1927. He studied medicine at Tübingen and at Jena, where he was a student of Wilhelm Olivier Leube. From 1874 until his retirement in 1920 he worked at the University of Erlangen, took his habilitation there in 1875, rose to professor of internal medicine and pharmacology, and in 1903 became director of the medical clinic. He wrote the widely used Lehrbuch der klinischen Arzneibehandlung, a textbook of clinical drug treatment for students and physicians that ran through many editions, and with Roderich Stintzing he edited the Handbuch der gesamten Therapie and the Handbuch der speciellen Therapie innerer Krankheiten. His son was the writer Ernst Penzoldt. The Franz-Penzoldt-Zentrum, the centre for experimental medical research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, is named in his honor.