Edmund Weil
Edmund Weil (born April 16, 1879 in Neustadtl , † June 15, 1922 in Prague ) was a German-Bohemian - Austrian bacteriologist .
After studying medicine at the medical faculty of the German University in Prague, Weil continued to work there and in 1914 was appointed associate professor for hygiene.
As early as 1911, in the Wiener clinical Wochenschrift (issue 24, p. 335), together with the neuropsychologist Viktor Kafka , who was working as an assistant at the psychiatric clinic of the German faculty at the time, he described a previously unknown bacteriological reaction, which was called Weil- Kafka reaction or hemolysin reaction received.
Together with Arthur Felix , he developed a new detection method for typhus diseases via the detection of rickettsiae in urine , known as the Weil-Felix reaction and first described in the Wiener clinical Wochenschrift from 1916 (issue 29, fol. 33). He also worked as a serologist in later years .
Web links
- Short biography on whonamedit.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Weil: The problem of the serology of syphilis in Wassermann's presentation (remarks on Wassermann's lecture in the B. kl. W. 1921, no. 9). In: Berlin clinical weekly. Volume 53, 1921, pp. 966-970.
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| SURNAME | Because, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Bohemian-Austrian bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadtl |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1922 |
| Place of death | Prague |