Rudolf Rafael Kolisch (10 December 1867 – 7 April 1922) was an Austrian physician.

Biography

Kolisch was born at

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on 10 December 1867, the son of postmaster Adolf Kolisch and Amalie Reif. He was the nephew of the author and journalist . He studied medicine at

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and

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(M.D. 1891). In 1895 he became privat-docent in medicine at the

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. Besides lecturing during the sessions of the university he practised medicine in

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during the summer months. Kolisch was one of the first authors in Germany to support the view of French physiologist

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that

diabetes Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the cells of th ...

is caused by increased formation of sugar in the tissues. He was the principal champion of a

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diet and a restriction of protein to treat diabetes. Kolisch's work had a strong influence on the development of diabetes therapy in the two decades prior to the first use of

insulin Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (''INS)'' gene. It is the main Anabolism, anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabol ...

in 1922, a time when the most important problem in diabetes therapy was balancing the ratio between protein and carbohydrates. Kolisch was father of the violinist

Rudolf Kolisch Rudolf Kolisch (July 20, 1896 – August 1, 1978) was a Viennese violinist and leader of string quartets, including the Kolisch Quartet and the Pro Arte Quartet. Early life and education Kolisch was born in Klamm, Schottwien, Lower Austria and ...

and

Gertrud Schoenberg Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg (, Kolisch; pen name, Max Blonda; 11 July 1898 – 14 February 1967) was an Austrian opera librettist. She was the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, whom she married in 1924, and the sister of his pupil, ...

. He died on 7 April 1922 in

Publications

* Kolisch, Rudolf: Die Reiztheorie und die modernen Behandlungsmethoden des Diabetes. Vienna 1918. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Über Wesen und Behandlung der uratischen Diathese. Stuttgart 1895. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Lehrbuch der diätetischen Therapie chronischer Krankheiten für Ärzte und Studierende. I. Allgemeinder Theil. Bd. 1. Leipzig and Vienna 1899. * Kolisch, Rudolf, Schumnn-Leclerq F.: Zur Frage der Kohlehydrattoleranz der Diabetiker. In: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift No. 48. 1903. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Die diätetische Behandlung der Choleithiasis. In: Monatsschrift für die physikalisch-diätetischen Heilmethoden in ärztlicher Praxis. No. 2. 1909. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Beiträge zur Diabetesdiät. In: Zentralblatt für die gesamte Therapie. No. 23. 1905. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Experimenteller Beitrag zur Lehre von der alimentären Glykosurie. In: Centralblatt für klinische Medicin. No. 35. 1892. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Grundzüge der diätetischen Behandlung des schweren Diabetes. In: Zeitschrift für physikalische und diätetische Therapie. No. 12. 1908-1909. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Zur Theorie der Diabetesdiät. In: Wiener medicinische Wochenschrift. No. 20-22. 1902. * Kolisch, Rudolf, von Stejskal, Karl: Ueber den Zuckergehalt des normalen und diabetischen Blutes. In: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. No. 50. 1897. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Die functionellen Beziehungen der Leber zur Pathologie des Stoffwechsels. In: Wiener medicinische Wochenschrift. No. 5–8. 1898. * Kolisch, Rudolf, Pichler, Karl: Ein Fall von Morbus Addisonii mit Stoffwechseluntersuchung. In: Centralblatt für klinische Medizin. No. 12. 1893. * Kolisch, Rudolf, Karl von Stejskal, Karl: Ueber die durch Blutzerfall bedingten Veränderungen des Harns. In: Zeitschrift für klinische Medizin. No. 27. 1895. * Kolisch, Rudolf: Das Verhalten der Alloxurkörper im pathologischen Harn. In: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift No. 23–24. 1895.

References

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