Alexander Crever Abbott

Alexander Crever Abbott (born February 26, 1860 in Baltimore , Maryland , † September 11, 1935 in Waquoit , Massachusetts ) was an American hygienist and bacteriologist .

Life

Alexander Crever Abbott attended Baltimore City College , then studied at the University of Maryland, earning a doctorate in medicine in 1884 . He then became assistant to William Henry Welch at Johns Hopkins University in 1885 and continued his education from 1886-89 during a stay in Germany with Max von Pettenkofer in Munich and Robert Koch in Berlin . As an assistant in hygiene and bacteriology , he then worked until 1891 at Johns Hopkins University and from 1891 to 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . At the latter institute he was then employed as the successor to John Shaw Billings from 1896 until his retirement in 1928 as a professor of hygiene and bacteriology, but this teaching activity was suspended during the late phase of the First World War , when he served as a medical officer in the military from 1917-18. Since 1897 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In the last years of his life he lived on the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts. He died in 1935 at the age of 75.

Abbott wrote the works Principles of Bacteriology (Philadelphia 1892; several editions) and The Hygiene of Transmissible Diseases (ibid. 1899). With his wife Georgina Osler, a niece of the Canadian physician William Osler , he had a son, William Osler Abbott (* 1902, † 1943), who also became a doctor.

literature

• Abbott, Alexander Crever . In: Isidor Fischer : Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Vol. 1, 1932, p. 2.
• Abbott, Alexander Crever . In: Peter Voswinckel (New Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Vol. 3, 2002, p. 1.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Alexander C. Abbott. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 3, 2018 .