Ernst Joest

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Ernst Joest

Ernst Joest (born February 14, 1873 in Wallefeld , † July 7, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German veterinarian .

Life

Ernst Joest studied veterinary medicine at the Ludoviciana Gießen and at the veterinary universities in Dresden and Berlin. With the work Die Transplantation bei Lumbriciden he received his doctorate in 1897 at the University of Marburg as a doctor of philosophy.

From 1904 he was a full professor for pathologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden. He stayed that way after 1923, when it was incorporated into the University of Leipzig , until his death in July 1926.

Joest had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1923 and of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1925 .

From the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, he received in 1923 the honorary doctorate Dr. med. hc

Joest introduced histological research into pathological changes to veterinary medicine. Together with Kurt Degen , Joest discovered the Joest-Degenschen nuclear inclusion bodies in 1909 , which, if present, are still used today to detect Borna disease .

Joest was the founder of the standard textbooks of veterinary medicine published later by Johannes Dobberstein , the originally four-volume and later seven-volume "Handbook of the special pathological anatomy of domestic animals".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae in: Berlin and Munich veterinary weekly. Volume 74, 1961, Issue 16.
  3. ↑ member entry of Eenst Joest at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed February 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Ernst Joest on the website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Leipzig Latest News . October 28, 1923.
  6. ↑ Susanne Modrow, Dietrich Falke, Hermann Schätzl, Uwe Truyen: Molecular Virology , Springer-Verlag, 2009, p. 281f.
personal data
SURNAME Joest, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallefeld
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1926
Place of death Leipzig