Celestine Nauwerck
Coelestin Nauwerck (born July 7, 1853 in Zurich , † October 17, 1938 in Dresden ) was a German pathologist. For more than 28 years he headed the Municipal Pathological-Hygienic Institute in Chemnitz.
Life
Nauwerck was the youngest of six children of Carl Nauwerck , who fled Prussia after the German Revolution in 1848/49 . After graduating from high school in Zurich - probably at the Rämibühl canton school - he studied medicine at the University of Zurich . In 1877 he passed the state examination. He first went into internal medicine and was an assistant doctor in Winterthur and at the medical clinic of the University Hospital Zurich .
In Zurich he was awarded Dr. med. PhD. Since 1883 with Ernst Ziegler at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , he qualified as a professor for pathology in 1884 . With Ziegler he founded the contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology in 1884 . In 1886 he was appointed associate professor . In 1989 he moved to Ernst Neumann at the Albertus University in Königsberg . At times he also held a lectureship in bacteriology . Appointed as a prosector in Chemnitz in 1898, he developed "extremely fruitful support" from clinicians through autopsies and microscopic biopsy examinations . In addition, he devoted himself to bacteriology. He made an excellent contribution to the fight against diphtheria , scarlet fever , syphilis and typhus . Water and wastewater investigations led to a significant improvement in urban hygiene. He participated in the construction of two institute buildings and in advanced medical training. The City Council of Chemnitz had him portrayed in the 1920s.
Works
- Contributions to the knowledge of Brightii disease . Contributions to Pathological Anatomy 1 (1886), pp. 1-84.
- Section technology for students and doctors , 6th edition. Fischer, Jena 1921.
Honors
- Oil painting by Carl Lange
- Nauwerck-Haus, the institute building on the corner of Feldstrasse (today Rembrandt-Strasse) and Ziesche-Strasse (1933), destroyed in the air raids on Chemnitz
- Honorary grave at the crematorium of the Chemnitz municipal cemetery
- Nauwerck-Strasse in the medical district of Chemnitz-Schönau (1951)
literature
- Martin Staemmler : Celestine Nauwerck . Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology 31 (1938), pp. 523-557.
- From Alberti to Zöppel. 125 biographies on Chemnitz's history: From the Chemnitz City Archives (W. Kü.), Issue 4. Chemnitz 2000, p. 73.
Web links
- German biography: Nauwerck, Coelestin
- Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology (GoogleBooks)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Contributions to the pathology of the brain .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nauwerck, Celestine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1938 |
| Place of death | Dresden |