Albert Plehn

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Albert Plehn (born April 14, 1861 in Lubochin ( Schwetz district / West Prussia); † May 17, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German tropical medicine specialist .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Marienwerder , he studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel until 1886, where he was awarded a doctorate in the same year. med. PhD . During his studies in 1881 he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel . He then entered the Dutch service as a ship's doctor and learned about tropical medicine on a trip to the Sunda Islands .

In Sumatra and Java he systematized quinine prophylaxis . In 1887 he continued his training at the gynecological clinic in Dresden and in 1888 at the municipal hospital in Berlin-Friedrichshain , before setting up as a general practitioner in Wandsbek in 1890 . In 1894 he went to the German colony of Cameroon as a government doctor . With his intensive research on malaria , blackwater fever , dysentery and beriberi , he made a significant contribution to improving the health of locals and Europeans. In 1903 he finished his tropical service and returned to Berlin, where he completed his habilitation that same year and was effective as a doctor of the internal department at the municipal hospital "Am Urban" . At the beginning of the First World War , Plehn signed the manifesto of the 93 .

At the University of Berlin he read as an honorary professor on clinical pathology and exotic medicine. In addition to maintaining tropical medicine, he dealt with diseases of the blood-forming organs, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and gout . Especially on tropical medicine, he wrote several papers and numerous articles, primarily in the journal Archive for Ship and Tropical Hygiene . In 1926 he retired. Then he made two sea voyages to America, where he found new scientific ideas. He was one of the "old Africans" who laid the foundations for development in the German colonies.

family

His parents were Anton Plehn (1834–1887), landowner and farmer in Lubochin, and Johanna Maercker (1838–1888). His first marriage was Marie Gütschow in 1890 and his second marriage was Carina Huch, daughter of the notary William Huch and his second wife Marie Huch , née. Gerstäcker. Carina Huch was the sister of Friedrich Huch and Felix Huch , cousin of Ricarda Huch , granddaughter of Friedrich Gerstäcker . His siblings were Friedrich Plehn (1862–1904), tropical medicine; Marianne Plehn (1865-1946), zoologist ; Rose Plehn (1865–1945), painter, and Rudolf Plehn (1868–1899), forest scientist.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

  • 35 cases of skull fracture . A contribution to the pathological anatomy of the same, Kiel 1886. (Diss.)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the course and treatment of tropical malaria in Cameroon , Berlin 1896.
  • On the comparative pathology of the black race in Cameroon , Berlin 1896.
  • On tropical anemia and its relationship to latent and manifest malaria infection , Leipzig 1899.
  • More about malaria. Immunity and latency period , Jena 1901.
  • Malaria of the West African negro population, especially with regard to the question of immunity , Jena 1902.
  • The acute infectious diseases among the negroes of the equatorial coasts of West Africa , Berlin 1903.
  • The results of the latest research in the field of malaria epidemiology , Munich 1904.
  • The tropical skin diseases , Leipzig 1905; exp. in: Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten, Vol. 2, Leipzig 1914, pp. 171-310.
  • Medicine . In: G.Neumeyer: Instructions for scientific observations on journeys, Hanover 1905, pp. 154–238. (with Friedrich Plehn)
  • Tropical hygiene, with special consideration of the German colonies (21 lectures), 2.A. Jena 1906. (with Friedrich Plehn)
  • Brief regulations for the prevention and treatment of the most important tropical diseases among Europeans and natives for non-doctors , Jena 1906.
  • About Beri-Beri and its importance for economic and warlike ventures in warm countries . (= Berlin Lectures H. 2), Berlin 1907.
  • For the treatment of acute rheumatoid arthritis , Leipzig 1908.
  • About large blood transfusions , Berlin 1914.
  • Racial pathological methods : In: Eberhard Ackerknecht: Handbook of biological working methods, Vol. 7.2 (= methods of comparative morphological research), Berlin 1928, pp. 841–848.

literature

  • Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the 19th century . Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7463-0145-9 , pp. 1304–1305 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin 1901 edition)
  • Gottlieb Olpp: Outstanding tropical doctors in words and pictures . Verlag der "Ärztliche Rundschau", Munich 1932, pp. 320–324.
  • For Albert Plehn's 70th birthday . In: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene , Vol. 35 (1931), pp. 205-208, ISSN  0365-7221
  • Johannes Steudel : Albert Plehn † . In: Klinische Wochenschrift , Vol. 14 (1935), Issue 25, p. 911
  • Chlodwig Plehn: History of the Plehn family . Self-published, Cottbus 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 375.

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personal data
SURNAME Plehn, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubochin ( Schwetz district , West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1935
Place of death Berlin