Eduard Pfuhl

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Eduard Pfuhl (born June 28, 1852 in Berzienen , Insterburg district ; † 1917 ) was a German military doctor (general senior physician), specialist in infectious diseases and disinfection and an employee of Robert Koch .

Pfuhl was born the son of a landowner in East Prussia. He studied at the Pépinière (Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education, KWA) from 1873 and received his doctorate in 1876. In 1878 he became an assistant doctor and was at the Hospital for Mercy in Königsberg from 1878 to 1881 . From 1886 to 1891 and 1898 to 1908 at the KWA and was professor from 1890. From 1891 to 1894 he was at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin, which had been founded in 1891 and was directed by Robert Koch, whose daughter Gertrude (Trudy) he married on March 7, 1883 (to the displeasure of his father). In 1893 he was in Strasbourg. In 1908 he resigned from active service as senior physician. Most recently he was head of the hygienic-chemical laboratory at the KWA. After his active service he was with Robert Koch at the Institute for Infectious Diseases.

Together with Georg Gaffky, he was editor of his collected works in 1912.

He published, among other things, about hygiene measures, the spread of typhus in food, infection of gunshot wounds by torn clothes and the spread of bacteria in the groundwater.

Fonts

  • Disinfection facilities and disinfection apparatus, in Emil von Behring (ed.), The fight against infectious diseases, hygienic part, Leipzig: Thieme, 1894
  • with Bernhard Nocht : Disinfecting measures to free clothes, linen, beds, apartment and ship utensils, etc. s. w. of infectious substances, in: Emil von Behring (Ed.), The fight against infectious diseases, hygienic part, Leipzig: Thieme, 1894

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates according to Paul Wätzold, master list of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education, Springer 1910, p. 182
  2. ↑ Thomas Daniel, Pioneers of Medicine and their impact on tuberculosis, University of Rochester Press 2000, p. 91
  3. ↑ Robert Koch Institute, references to Koch . The collected works are online there
personal data
SURNAME Pfuhl, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berzienen , Insterburg district
DATE OF DEATH 1917