Bernhard Proskauer

Bernhard Proskauer 1851–1915

Bernhard Proskauer (born January 8, 1851 in Ratibor ; † July 24, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and hygienist .

Life

After studying chemistry at the University of Berlin , he joined the Imperial Health Department in 1874 and worked there in his own laboratory from 1878. In 1880 he became an employee of Robert Koch at the Imperial Health Department and in 1885 he was head of department at the newly created Hygienic Institute of the University of Berlin, where Koch was a full professor. In 1890 Proskauer was appointed honorary professor. From 1891 he worked with Koch at the newly founded Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases , where he headed the chemical department from 1901 to 1907. From 1907 he was head of the Berlin Municipal Investigation Office for commercial and hygienic purposes .

He was particularly concerned with drinking water hygiene and disinfection and in 1905 published the Encyclopedia of Hygiene with Richard Pfeiffer . The Voges-Proskauer reaction was named after Otto Voges and him .

tomb

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Archives about Bernhard Proskauer and his family are kept in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Fonts (selection)

• (with Adolf Schmidtmann ): The status of the urban cleaning issue. In: Quarterly for forensic medicine and public sanitary services. Volume 3, Vol. 13/14 (1897).
• (with Karl Friedrich Moritz Elsner): About the hygienic investigation of the coal pulp process for cleaning waste water (Rothe-Degener system) (from the sewage treatment station in Potsdam). In: Quarterly for forensic medicine and public sanitary services. Episode 3, Vol. 16 (1898), supplement booklet.
• (with Otto Voges): Contribution to nutritional physiology and the differential diagnosis of hemorrhagic septicemia . Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, No. 28, 1898, pp. 20-22.
• (Ed. with Richard Pfeiffer ): Encyclopedia of Hygiene. 2 volumes. Vogel, Leipzig 1905.

source

• Proskauer, Bernhard, hygienist . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 8 : Plett – Schmidseder . KG Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-23168-7 , p. 80 .
• Proskauer, Bernhard, hygienist . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 95 ( books.google.de - limited preview).