Carl Friedländer

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Carl Friedländer , himself Friedlaender (born November 19, 1847 in Brieg , Silesia ; † May 13, 1887 in Meran ) was a German pathologist and microbiologist . He was one of the pioneers in bacteriology .

Friedländer was the son of the businessman Heinrich Friedländer and attended grammar school in Brieg. He studied medicine in Breslau, Würzburg, Zurich and Berlin and completed his studies in 1868 with a dissertation "On the clogging of the pulmonary artery" and the state examination in Breslau, where he was Rudolf Heidenhain's assistant at the University's Physiological Institute . From 1871 to 1872 he was an assistant at the surgical clinic in Halle.

Friedländer completed his habilitation in Halle in 1872 for pathological anatomy. Between 1874 and 1879 Friedländer worked as an assistant to Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg . In Berlin he became a prosector at the municipal hospital Berlin-Friedrichshain in 1879 and private lecturer at the university. Later he became head of the Pathological Institute at the Municipal Hospital on Friedrichshain .

Friedländer himself suffered from lung disease and worked primarily in the areas of pneumonia and tuberculosis, which he also suffered from . In 1882 he discovered the bacterial cause of pneumonia. In 1883 he founded the journal “ Advances in Medicine ” and acted as its editor until the end of his life. One of his first publications in it in 1883 was his description of Diplococcus (today Klebsiella pneumoniae , Friedländer bacteria) as the causative agent of a rare form of pneumonia, Friedländer pneumonia, which is now named after him .

Publications (selection)

  • About the schizomycetes in acute fibrous pneumonia . In: Virchow's Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and Clinical Medicine , 87 (2): 319-324, Feb. 4, 1882.
  • Arteritis obliterans . In: Central Journal for Medical Sciences , Berlin, 1876, 14.
  • About obstruction of the pulmonary artery . 1868

Sources and literature

  • Julius Pagel:  Friedlaender, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 785.
  • W. Kohler and H. Mochmann (1987): Carl Friedlander (1847-1887) and the discovery of the Pneumococcus - in memory of the centenary of his death . In: Journal for Medical Training . 81 (12): 615-618.
  • W. Köhler: Carl Friedländer and the discovery of the 'Pneumoniecoccus'. In: H. Mochmann, W. Köhler: Milestones in bacteriology. Frankfurt am Main, 2nd ed. 1987, pp. 166-171.
  • Walther Killy et al. a. (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , p. 452.
  • Werner Köhler : Carl Friedländer. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 440.

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