Eduard Reichenow

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Johann Eduard Reichenow (born July 7, 1883 in Berlin , † March 23, 1960 in Wuppertal ) was a German protozoologist.

Life

Johann Eduard Reichenow was born as the son of ornithologist Georg Anton Eugen Reichenow and his wife Olympia Charlotte Marie. Cabanis was born in Berlin on July 7, 1883 . Reichenow was a grandson of the ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis on his mother's side . From 1904 to 1908 he studied natural sciences in Heidelberg , Berlin and Munich , where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In Heidelberg he joined Landsmannschaft Zaringia .

After working as an assistant to Richard Hertwig to Reichenow 1908 as a research turned Laborers in the Imperial Health Office of Protozoology to. Serving the Reichskolonialamt he explored in a Cameroonian hospital the biology of sleep pathogen and discovered in great apes malaria parasites of man are morphologically identical to those.

From 1921 to 1953 Reichenow headed the protozoa department of the Hamburg Tropical Institute . In July 1921 he qualified as professor of zoology at the University of Hamburg . He was also editor of the Zeitschrift für Tropical Medicine , the Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie and the Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Honors

Eduard Reichenow Medal

Since 1984, the awards German Society for Protozoology the Eduard Reichenow medal to personalities who have rendered outstanding services to promote Protozoology.

Publications

  • with Franz Theodor Doflein : Textbook of Protozoan Studies; a presentation of the natural history of protozoa with special consideration of the parasitic and pathogenic forms , 5th edition, G. Fischer , 1928
  • Ground plan of protozoology for doctors and veterinarians , JA Barth, Leipzig 1943

literature

  • Gottlieb Olpp (Ed.): Outstanding tropical doctors in words and pictures , Munich 1932, p. 341.
  • Wilhelm Deubner (Ed.): History of the Landsmannschaft Zaringia , Hersbruck 1960, p. 182 ff.
  • A. Hase: Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. hc Eduard Reichenow to the memory , in: Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde , Issue 2 1960, pp. 135 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see birth register entry of the StA Berlin 4a No. 1797/1883
  2. ^ Old gentlemen of the CC in Hamburg and Harburg. VACC Hamburg and VACC Harburg membership directory. Hamburg 1952, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Reichenow, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichenow, Eduard Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protozoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1960
Place of death Wuppertal