Curt Hallauer

Curt Hallauer (born August 5, 1900 in Basel , † August 30, 1994 in Bern ; resident in Basel) was a Swiss bacteriologist and virologist .

Life

Family and education

The Reformed baptized Curt Hallauer, son of the associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Basel Dr. med. Otto Hallauer (1866–1948) and Sophie Louise, née Niederer, earned the federal Matura in his home town of Basel. He then turned to studying medicine at the University of Basel, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1925. med. PhD . In 1928 a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship took him to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City , and in 1930 he returned to Switzerland. Curt Hallauer was married to Lisette nee Gillard. He died in the late summer of 1994 at the old age of 94.

Professional background

After completing his studies, Curt Hallauer received an assistant position with Robert Doerr at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Basel, and in 1935 he completed his habilitation in the subjects of hygiene and bacteriology. In 1936 Curt Hallauer accepted the call to an extraordinary professorship for his post-doctoral subjects, combined with the management of the Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology at the University of Bern . Hallauer, who was promoted to full professor in 1941 , also held the position of dean of the medical faculty from 1949 to 1951 and that of rector from 1960 to 1961 , and in 1971 he retired . Based on the investigation and breeding of the avian influenza virus in 1931, Hallauer emerged as the author of numerous studies on viral pathogens. With his experimental methodology, he is one of the pioneers in virology. In 1964 Curt Hallauer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Publications

• Chemistry of bacterial toxins, Springer, Berlin 1925
• Saprophytic microorganisms as donors of antimicrobial substances, Schwabe, Basel 1944
• together with Robert Doerr: Handbuch der Virusforschung , J. Springer, Vienna 1938–58
• The virus etiology of tumors: Rector's speech, Haupt, Bern 1961
• Virology Monographs, Springer-Verlag, New York 1968–81

literature

• Louis Nagel, Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Switzerland: Including the Principality of Liechtenstein 1962-1963: a Biographical Dictionary Containing about 2600 Biographies of Prominent People in and of Switzerland (including the Principality of Liechtenstein), Nagel Publisher, Geneva 1962, p. 190.
• Archive for all virus research 31/32, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, New York 1970, I-III
• Der Bund , Der Bund, Bern August 5, 1980
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 1314.
• Gerhard Klumbies , Achim Klumbies: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 48, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1995, p. 286.

Web links

• Literature by and about Curt Hallauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Urs Boschung : Hallauer, Curt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .