August Colberg

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August Colberg (born August 23, 1829 in Oderberg , † July 3, 1868 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German pathologist and university professor.

Life

Colberg studied medicine from 1850 at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and became active in the Corps Marchia Halle . When he was inactive, he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1856 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He then went to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin for two years . Under the impression of Rudolf Virchow , he turned to pathology when he suffered from knee problems . In 1863 he completed his habilitation in Halle. The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel appointed him as associate professor in 1864, and as professor in 1868 . After he published a large paper on pulmonary pathology in 1866, he died of a lung disease himself at the age of only 38. Colberg's reappraisal of the Hettstedt trichinae epidemic (1864) established the mandatory trichinae show in Prussia in 1866 .

family

August Colberg married Meta Herrfurth (born April 15, 1846 in Halle (Saale) ; † October 1, 1875 in Wehlitz ). Their daughter Frida married the later district administrator and member of parliament Robert Johannes .

Works

  • Pathological-anatomical studies of the changes in the muscle fibers in trichiniasis , 1864.
  • Trichinella in relation to public health , Magdeburg 1864.
  • Contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the lungs , 1866.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 99/198
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De ratione quae interest inter emphysema atque pulmonum tuberculosin .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Observationes de penitiore pulmonum structura et physiologica et pathologica
  4. ^ Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 173–174.
personal data
SURNAME Colberg, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Oderberg , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1868
Place of death Halle (Saale)