Eilhard Mitscherlich (veterinarian)
Jürg Eilhard Mitscherlich (* July 25, 1913 in Königsberg ; † March 28, 2002 in Göttingen ) was a German veterinarian and university professor.
The son of the crop scientist and soil scientist Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich studied veterinary medicine and was senior assistant at the hygiene institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover with Kurt Wagener until 1955 . There he gave lectures on chemotherapy and protozoal infections, researching on the latter in South West Africa as a DFG scholarship holder and writing his habilitation thesis on them.
In 1955 he was appointed full professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen , where he was appointed director of the veterinary institute . During his time in Göttingen, his institute received high national and international recognition in the field of animal disease control. Mitscherlich received several calls to other universities, which he turned down. In 1978 Mitscherlich retired.
His brother was the forest scientist Gerhard Mitscherlich .
Honors
- 1973 member of the Leopoldina
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
Web links
- http://www.tiho-hannover.de/fileadmin/user_upload/tiho_hannover/kliniken_institute/01_verwaltung/Presse/TiHo-Anzeiger/2002_04.pdf (PDF; 1.11 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Jürg Eilhard Mitscherlich at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitscherlich, Eilhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitscherlich, Jürg Eilhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German veterinarian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2002 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |