Carl Fraenkel

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Carl Fraenkel (born May 2, 1861 in Charlottenburg near Berlin , † December 29, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German bacteriologist. In 1912 he changed his last name to Fraenken .

Life stations

After graduating from the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin , Fraenkel studied medicine in Berlin, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Freiburg. In 1884 he was at the University of Leipzig Dr. med. PhD. In 1885 he joined the Hygiene Institute in Berlin founded by Robert Koch . He completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin in 1888. In 1889 he accepted a position as associate professor at the University of Königsberg , before moving to the hygienic institute of the University of Marburg as a full professor in 1891 . In 1895 he went to the hygienic institute of the University of Halle with his student and confidante Georg Sobernheim . In the following years he made scientific trips to Japan , Romania and Russia . When the war began in 1914, he was entrusted with the production of large quantities of typhoid and cholera vaccines . After a collapse in April 1915, he let himself be released from his activities at the university and moved to Hamburg.

In 1909 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Special services

Fraenkel researched various infectious diseases, in particular cholera and diphtheria , as well as gonococci and meningococci . In 1885, commissioned by Koch, he examined Berlin's drinking water and implemented changes to the large filters customary at the time. Together with Richard Pfeiffer , he summarized Koch's teachings in an outline of bacterial science and later published a microphotographic atlas of bacterial science. In 1888 he developed a widely used auger for taking samples.

Honors

Publications

  • Outline of bacterial science , Berlin: Hirschwald, 1887 (3rd edition 1890).
  • Microphotographic Atlas of Bacterial Science , Berlin: Hirschwald, 1889–92 (2nd edition 1895).
  • A new method of sterilizing milk , 1892.
  • The germicidal effect of peat dust , together with August Gärtner , Friedrich Loeffler , Albert Stutzer , Prenzlau: Mieck, 1894.
  • Comments on the Cholera Question , 1894.
  • Attempts at the creation of artificial immunity , 1894.
  • The Conduct of the Argentine Government on Cholera , 1894.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of bacterial growth on protein-free nutrient solutions , 1894.
  • Vaccination and vaccination protection , Marburg: NG Elwert, 1895.
  • A morphological peculiarity of the diphtheria bacillus  : preliminary communication , 1895.
  • To distinguish the real and the false diphtheria bacillus , 1896.
  • Water filtration and Rieselwirthschaft , 1896.
  • Siegel's Bacillus of Foot and Mouth Disease , 1897.
  • The pulmonary tuberculosis , their origin, prevention and cure , Halle: Gebauer-Schwetschke, 1898th
  • A word on railway hygiene , 1898.
  • On the bacteriological performance of the sand plate filter , Fischer in Worms, 1900.
  • The Use of Alcohol in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases , 1901.
  • Moderation or abstinence? , Berlin: Mäßigkeits-Verl., 1903.
  • Health and alcohol: Lecture given on Berlin , Munich & Berlin: Oldenbourg, 1903 (4th ed. 1908).
  • The essence and the fight against tuberculosis , Berlin: Trowitzsch & Sohn, 1905.
  • Municipal pleasure houses , Leipzig: Barth, 1905.
  • About the microscopic evidence of typhus bacilli in blood preparations , 1906.
  • Observations on the spirils of tick fever and American recurrence , 1907.
  • Apparatus and transport trolleys for the recovery and disposal of animal carcasses and slaughterhouse confiscates , Berlin: Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellsch., 1908.
  • Alcoholism , Halle aS: Buchdr. d. Orphanage, 1912.
  • Collaboration in Weyl's Handbook of Hygiene .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Carl Fraenkel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)