Carlos Chagas

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Carlos Chagas

Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das Chagas (born July 9, 1879 in Oliveira , † November 8, 1934 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian doctor.

Life

Chagas was born to a distinguished family. He studied with the Jesuits in Ouro Preto , São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In 1909, Chagas first described Chagas disease , which was named after him, in track construction workers who allegedly suffered from malaria . He also investigated the link between blood-sucking insects and endemic cretinism . He named the causative agent of Chagas disease as Trypanosoma cruzi after his mentor Oswaldo Cruz . Chagas was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1926 .

Carlos Chagas led the initiative to fight the Spanish flu in Brazil in 1918 . Because of his merits in this not without danger, he was then appointed head of the Departamento Nacional de Saúde Pública. In 1919 he traveled to the United States of America to find out about the possibilities of building modern health and nursing care. He had in mind, above all, to train the parish sisters in the tradition of Florence Nightingale (Nightingale Style of Nursing). Chagas was able to win the Rockefeller Foundation for this cause, and so the Brazilian nurse Edith de Magalhães Fraenkel was also able to travel to the USA in 1922 with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and take part in a study program at the Philadelphia General School of Nursing. Edith de Magalhães Fraenkel became one of the main figures in the development of modern care structures in Brazil in the following years.

In 1999 the asteroid (9483) Chagas was named after Carlos Chagas.

His son Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000) was also a doctor and biophysicist.

Publications

  • Nova tripanozomiaze humana: estudos sobre a morfolojia eo ciclo evolutivo do "Schizotrypanum cruzi n. Gen., N. Sp.", Ajente etiolojico de nova entidade morbida do homem. = About a new trypanosomiasis in humans. Studies on the morphology and development cycle of "Schizotrypanum cruzi n. Gen., N. Sp.", The causative agent of a new human disease. In: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1909, pp. 159-218, DOI: 10.1590 / S0074-02761909000200008 (Portuguese / German), and in: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene. Vol. 13 (1909), No. 11, pp. 351-353.

Honors

  • April 14, 2020: First celebration of "World Chagas Disease Day".

literature

  • Leopoldo Acuña: Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, p. 86.

Web links

Commons : Carlos Chagas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopoldo Acuña: Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, p. 86.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Carlos Chagas at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Taka Oguisso and Lucia Yasuko Izumi Nichiata: Edith de Magalhāes Fraenkel (1889–1968) , in: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history”, Volume 8; hpsmedia Nidda 2018, pp. 65–69.
  4. ↑ Taka Oguisso, Genival Fernandes de Freitas, Magali Hiromi Takashi: Edith de Magalhães Fraenkel: O maior vulta da Enfermagem brasileira , scielo.br, accessed on March 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ World Health Organization: April 14, 2020 "World Chagas Disease Day ", accessed April 10, 2020.
  6. ^ World Health Organization: World Chagas Disease Day: Raising Awareness of Neglected Tropical Diseases, accessed April 17, 2020. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Chagas, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chagas, Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliveira
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1934
Place of death Rio de Janeiro