Adolf Loewy

Who was Adolf Loewy?

Adolf Loewy; was a German physiologist who was a native of Berlin.

He studied medicine in Vienna and Berlin, where in 1885 he received his medical doctorate. Later he was an assistant to Nathan Zuntz at the Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule in Berlin. In 1900 he became an assistant professor, and in 1921 was a professor and in charge of the Schweizerisches Institut für Hochgebirgsphysiologie und Tuberkuloseforschung at Davos.

Loewy conducted extensive research in the field of altitude physiology. This included studies performed at the Jüdischen Krankenhaus in Berlin, and at Capanna Regina Margherita, a research station at the top of Monte Rosa, Italy. Here he worked with Dr. Zuntz, and other renowned scientists that included Angelo Mosso and Arnold Durig.

With Austrian physiologist Hermann von Schrötter, he performed pioneer research of pulmonary hemodynamics. In 1905, through the use of an endobronchial catheter, they were the first to achieve airway separation on a human subject.