Dietrich Falke

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Dietrich Falke, Mainz.

Friedrich Karl Dietrich Falke (born August 13, 1927 in Coswig (Anhalt) ) is a specialist in medical microbiology and infectious diseases. From 1969 to 1992 he was Professor of Medical Microbiology in Mainz with the main tasks of research , teaching and diagnostics and is an author of specialist medical literature on microbiology , virology and infectious diseases .

Life

Dietrich Falke grew up in Coswig, the son of the general practitioner Friedrich Falke and his wife Gertrud Eleonore Falke. During the Second World War , at the age of 15, he was an air force helper from February 1943 to September 1944 , then in the Reich Labor Service until December 1944 . Falke was drafted on December 14, 1944, was taken prisoner by the English and fled to the Soviet zone of occupation in March 1946 . On July 15, 1946, he passed the Abitur at the Goethe School in Dessau . He worked in agriculture until 1947. From January to April 1948 he was an auxiliary nurse at the district hospital in Osterburg (Altmark) and from May to December 1948 volunteer at the "Bacteriological Investigation Center" in Husum . He then worked until April 1949 as a laboratory assistant in what was then the Husum district hospital and developed a photometer for clinical-chemical examinations.

From 1949 to 1954 Falke studied medicine in Kiel and Tübingen and in the first three semesters also chemistry, passed the medical state examination and received his doctorate with the dissertation : "The blood count in guinea pigs infected with Queensland fever ". The topic was awarded by Wolf-Dietrich Germer. From April 1, 1955 to August 31, 1957 he worked under Erich Traub as a research assistant at the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases of Animals in Tübingen, then until March 31, 1965 as a research assistant to R. Siegert at the Hygiene Institute of the Philipps University in Marburg , where he was in February 1964 on "the proliferation of herpes viruses in cultured cells" in the subject Medical Microbiology habilitation .

During his time in Marburg, he married Inge Schmidt-Westerkamp on July 16, 1960. During a one-year study visit to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda , Maryland , USA , he worked in 1960/61 .

In 1965 he switched to the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as a virologist , where he took on an unscheduled professorship from 1969 and a C3 professorship from 1972 as head of the newly established department for experimental virology. He headed the department for experimental virology beyond his retirement in August 1992 until 1995. From 1975 to 1985 he also held a teaching position for virology at the TU Darmstadt .

Dietrich Falke is the author of specialist medical literature on microbiology, virology and infectious diseases, the new editions of which he regularly updates as emeritus.

Membership in scientific societies and committees

Dietrich Falke is a member of the following scientific societies:

From 1996 to 2006 he was a medical member of the ethics committee of the State Medical Association of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The blood count in guinea pigs infected with Queensland fever. Dissertation. Tübingen 1953.
  • The multiplication of herpes viruses in culture cells . Habilitation thesis. Marburg 1964.
  • with Paul Klein: Medical Microbiology I. Virology. A teaching text for medical students. (Heidelberg paperbacks). 2nd Edition. Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 978-3-540-08325-2 (print), ISBN 978-3-642-66699-5 (online). (Portuguese edition 1977)
  • with Jürgen Bohl among others: bedside virology: clinic, diagnostics, therapy. Clinic, diagnostics, therapy . Springer, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 978-3-540-64261-9 (print) ISBN 978-3-642-72181-6 (online).
  • with Jürgen Podlech: Virus and Tumor - Basic Terms in Oncology. In: Peter Reuter: Springer Lexicon Medicine. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20412-1 .
  • with Klaus-Michael Keller and R. Braun: Virus gastroenteritis. Differential diagnosis and therapy. In: daily prax. 2004: 48, pp. 28-38.
  • with Helmut Hahn, Paul Klein, Stefan HE Kaufmann, Uwe Ullmann: Medical microbiology and infectious diseases. 5th fully updated edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-21971-2 (print), ISBN 978-3-540-26529-0 (online).
  • with Jürgen Podlech: virus infections. In: Peter Reuter (Ed.): Springer Lexicon Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-26000-5 , pp. 1667-1678.
  • Virology. In: Helmut Hahn et al. (Ed.): Medical microbiology and infectious diseases. Dietrich Falke is the author of 21 chapters (2 of them with Thomas F. Schulz). 6. complete revised edition (out of print). Springer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-46359-7 .
  • with Axel Kramer, Klaus Miksits: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. and with Paul Klein, Helmut Hahn: The Origin of Medical Microbiology. In: Helmut Hahn et al. (Ed.): Medical Microbiology and Infectiology , 6th, completely revised. Edition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-540-46359-7 (print), ISBN 978-3-540-46362-7 (online).
  • with Klaus-Michael Keller, Jens Kittner and Jürgen Podlech: Virologie XXS pocket . 1st edition. Boerm Bruckmeier Verlag, Grünwald near Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89862-526-5 .
  • with Susanne Modrow, Uwe Truyen and Hermann Schätzl: Molecular Virology. An introduction for biologists and medical professionals. 3rd edition, Springer, Heidelberg 2010. Available as an e-book ( ISBN 978-3-8274-2241-5 ) or as a hardcover ( ISBN 978-3-8274-1833-3 ).
  • with Paul Klein, Helmut Hahn: Origin of Medical Microbiology. In: Helmut Hahn et al. (Ed.): Medical microbiology and infectious diseases. Springer, Heidelberg 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-24166-6 (print), ISBN 978-3-642-24167-3 (online).
  • with Susanne Modrow, Uwe Truyen and Hermann Schätzl: Molecular Virology. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-20717-4 (print) ISBN 978-3-642-20718-1 (online). English translation of the German 3rd edition of Molecular Virology. An introduction for biologists and medical professionals.

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SURNAME Falke, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falke, Friedrich Karl Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, medical microbiologist, infectiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig (Anhalt)