Albrecht Bethe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albrecht Bethe

German physiologist

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1872

Place of Birth: Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1954

Profession: university teacher, physiologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Albrecht Julius Theodor Bethe (25 April 1872 in Stettin – 19 October 1954 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German physiologist.
He was the father of physicist Hans Bethe (1906–2005). He studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich (under Richard Hertwig), Berlin and Strasbourg (under Friedrich Goltz and Ernst Julius Richard Ewald); receiving his PhD in 1895 at Munich.
From 1896 to 1911 he worked at the institute of physiology in Strasbourg, where in 1898 he obtained his doctorate in medicine.
In 1911 he became a professor of physiology at the University of Kiel, and four years later, relocated as a professor to the University of Frankfurt.
In 1937 he was relieved of his professorial duties at Frankfurt (his wife was deemed to be half-Jewish by the Nazis), only to have them reinstated following the end of wartime hostilities in Europe.He is well known for his studies involving the nervous system of invertebrates.
He believed in the "plasticity" of the nervous system, asserting that if one part of the brain is damaged, another part could learn the functions of the damaged portion.He was a co-editor of "Pflüger's Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie" (from 1918 onward) and of the "Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie" (1925–32).