Amsterdam
Durrer
memorial PRIMUM MOVENS ULTIMUM MORIENS
The Durrer Committee commissioned Lucien den Arend
to make a proposal for a sculpture commemorate Professor D. Durrer (1918-1984),
the reputable Dutch cardiologist.
1985-1986 - height 4m - stainless steel
memorial to Professor D. Durrer, Minervaplein, Amsterdam, commissioned by the Durrer Comité Foundation and the city of Amsterdam NL
Dirk Durrer (1918-1984) Dirk Durrer was appointed professor of cardiology
and clinical physiology at the University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands, from
1957 until his death in 1984. In the early 60's he introduced the famous multiterminal intramural needle electrode
- now called the Durrer Needle. This might be considered as the
beginning of clinical electro-physiology setting the stage for programmed
electrical stimulation and registration in the human heart. Durrer's experimental
and clinical research gave the electrophysiological community important new
insights in the reentry (circus movement) concept as explanation of certain
types of tachycardia, particularly in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Furthermore, Durrer initiated clinical and scientific approaches to
pharmacological treatment of life-threatening tachyarrhythmia. In honor of his
outstanding work, a monument was erected for Dirk Durrer in 1986 at the Minervaplein in Amsterdam near to his house in the Rubensstraat 27. The monument for
Prof. Durrer (probably) shows a model with two parallel atrioventricular
connections: The specialized conduction pathway and the accessory pathway, and
in so far supports the 'reentry theory.'
Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana,
the former Queen of the Netherlands, unveiled this monument on May 28, 1986
which has been erected in memory of the Amsterdam cardiology Professor, Prof.
Dr. Durrer (1918-1 984). The text on the flagstone primum moriens, ultimum moriens is the title of the
inaugural lecture of Prof. Durrer in 1957. It means:
'What moves first, dies last: and has reference to functioning of the heart.
Durrer D. Schoo L, Schuilenburg RM, Wellens HJJ. The role of premature beats in
the initiation and the termination of supraventricular tachyeardia in the
Wolff-Porkiruon-White syndrome. Circulation 1967;XXXVI: 644-662.
Durrcr D,
von Dam R Th, Freud GE, Jonse MJ, Meijler FL, Arzbaecher RC. Total excitation of
the isolated human heart. Circulation 1970:XL/:899-912.
Naumann d'Ainoncourt
C, Cardinal R, Janse MJ, Lüderitz B. Durrcr D. Effects of tocainide on ectopic
impulse formation in isolated cardiac tissue. Klin Wochenschr 1980;58:227-231.
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