Carl Flügge (hygienist)
Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge (born December 9, 1847 in Hanover , † October 12, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German doctor, hygienist and university professor.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1865, he studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1866 he became a member of the Corps Bremensia . He passed the medical state examination in 1870 and took part in the Franco-German War as a field assistant doctor . In 1871 he established himself as a general practitioner in Nenndorf . From 1874 he studied chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (with Friedrich August Kekulé ) and in Göttingen. In 1875 he became a scientific assistant to Franz Adolf Hofmann at theUniversity of Leipzig . In 1878 he completed his habilitation in Berlin for hygiene. In 1881 he moved to Göttingen, where from the summer semester he received his own department for medicinal chemistry and hygiene as a private lecturer at the Physiological Institute and three years later he was appointed associate professor and director of the first independent institute for hygiene in Prussia that emerged from his department . From 1885 he headed the institute as a full professor. In 1887 he followed the call of the Royal University of Breslau to her chair . Here were Wolfgang Weichardt (1875-1943), Walter Kruse (1864-1943) and Emil Gotschlich (1870-1949) his assistants. In 1898 Flügge was president of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . For the academic year 1900/01 he was elected rector of the University of Wroclaw. In his rector's speech on October 15, 1900, he described the development of scientific hygiene. Finally, the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs appointed him in 1909 to succeed Max Rubner at the Charité . Flügge devoted himself to tuberculosis and examined droplet infections and disinfection methods . He also dealt with the pasteurization of milk .
Honors
- Member of the Reich Health Council
- Secret Medical Council
- Dr. iur. hc from the University of Aberdeen
Publications
- The importance of drinking water tests for hygiene
- Textbook of hygienic examination methods
- Hygiene floor plan. Leipzig 1889
- Big city apartments and small house settlements in their effect on public health. Jena 1916
- The microorganisms: with special consideration of the etiology of infectious diseases , Leipzig 1886 ( digitized version )
editor
- Founder of the magazine for hygiene
See also
literature
- Manfred Stürzbecher : Flügge, Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Volker Zimmermann: Flügge, Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 406.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Flügge in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 40/738
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flügge, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flügge, Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hygienist and university professor; Rector of the University of Wroclaw |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1923 |
| Place of death | Berlin |