Elisabeth Mudrow-Reichenow

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Elizabeth (Lilly) Mudrow-Reichenow (* 28. March 1908 in Dusseldorf , † 3. May 1957 ) was a German biologist who in Elberfeld (Wuppertal) with Walter Kikuth and in Hamburg with her husband Eduard Reichenow at the liver stage of malaria in who researched bird malaria.

Live and act

Elisabeth Mudrow, known as Lilly, first studied art history after graduating from high school in Düsseldorf before turning to the natural sciences. She studied in Cologne , Bonn and Hamburg and completed her studies in 1932 with a doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. off with a dissertation on the topic "About the intracellular symbionts of ticks". She then assisted Günther Just at the Institute for Hereditary Science in Greifswald for three years and then became Paul Manteufel's assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1937 she switched to the chemotherapeutic laboratory in Elberfeld (Wuppertal), headed by Walter Kikuth , as a research assistant . The focus of her research was malaria. But she also researched the chemotherapy of piroplasmosis, questions of rat leprosy and pest control. Mudrow married the parasitologist Eduard Reichenow . She continued her research with her husband at the Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases ( Bernhard Nocht Institute ) in Hamburg after the Second World War .

As a natural scientist, she carried out many of the experiments that flowed into the research of Walter Kikuth and Eduard Reichenow. Their work was closely related to these two researchers. She is not seen as an independent scientist who also presented her own research.

As early as 1937, Kikuth and Mudrow published their work on pigmentless schizogony forms in the cells of the reticulo-endothelial system in avian malaria in the clinical weekly . The detailed descriptions followed in 1938 in the Rivista di Malariologia and in the Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde and Infectious Diseases . They published their publications mainly in German. Kikuth and Mudrow also wrote articles in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian and Bulgarian. In doing so, they published their results in specialist journals such as the Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde and Infectious Diseases and the Rivista de malariologie , while review articles with contexts and brief descriptions appeared in journals such as German medical weekly and Münchner medical weekly .

Almost 20 years after the publication of her groundbreaking essays from 1938, the English malariologist Robert Bray wrote: “Powerful support for Raffaele was to come from Germany where Kikuth and Mudrow were to publish the first of many brilliant researches on the pre-e cycle in avian malaria . ... It must be stressed that their paper in 1938 stands as the first description of pre-e forms of malaria parasites. "

Fonts (selection)

  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: About pigmentless schizogony forms in bird malaria . In: Klinische Wochenschrift, No. 48 (1937), pp. 1690-1691.
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: The endothelial stages of the malaria parasites in experiment and theory . In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektkrankheiten, Dept. Originals 142, (1938), 3/4, pp. 113-132.
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: Malaria transmission experiments with blood and organs of sporozoa-infected canaries . In: Rivista di Malariologia Sez. I, No. 1 (1938), pp. 1-14
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: The development of the sporozoites of Plasmodium cathemerium in the canary bird . In: Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektkrankheiten, Dept. Originals 145 (1939), pp. 81-88
  • Lilly Mudrow: Clinical and Parasitological Findings and Chemotherapeutic Results in Chicken Malaria . In: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, Vol. 44 (6), 1940 pp. 257–275
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: The endothelial phase of the malaria parasites and their theoretical and practical significance . In: Results of Hygiene, Bacteriology, Immunity Research and Experimental Therapy 24, (1941), pp. 1-86.
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: Malaria Problems in the Light of New Parasitological Findings . In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift vol. 67 (4) 1941, pp. 85-89
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow: The chemotherpaie of malaria in relation to the biology of the plasmodia . In: Medicine and Chemistry, 1942, pp. 44-59
  • Lilly Mudrow: About the development of the sporozoites in different bird malaria species . In: Rivista di Malariologie 21, 1942, pp. 29-46
  • Lilly Mudrow, Eduard Reichenow: Endothelial and erythrocytic development of Palsmodium praecox . In: Archiv für Protistenkunde 97 (1944), pp. 101–170
  • Walter Kikuth and Lilly Mudrow-Reichenow: About causal prophylactically effective substances in bird malaria . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Virology 127, (1947), 1-2, pp. 151-165.
  • Lilly Mudrow-Reichenow, Walter Kikuth: New research results on the biology of the malaria parasites . In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Vol. 74 (1) 1949, pp. 759-763
  • Walter Kikuth, Lilly Mudrow-Reichenow: New ways in the chemotherapy of malaria . In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Vol. 74 (4) 1949, pp. 97-101

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dünschede, Horst-Bernd: Tropical medicine research at Bayer . Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1971.
  2. ^ Mannweiler, Erich: The scientific achievements of employees of the Bernhard Nocht Institute between 1900 and 1960. A brief historical overview . In: Zentralblatt für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin . tape 192 , 1991, pp. 187-206 .
  3. ↑ a b Franken, Gabriele: Walter Kikuth and Lilly Mudrow: New ideas in malaria research . In: Karenberg, Axel, Groß, Dominik, Schmidt, Mathias (eds.): Research on the history of medicine, contributions from the "Rheinisches Kreis der Medizinhistoriker" . Kassel UP, Kassel 2013, p. 173-184 ( uni-kassel.de [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Kikuth, Walter, Mudrow, Lilly: About pigmentless schizogony forms in bird malaria . In: Clinical weekly . No. 48 , 1937, pp. 1690-1691 .
  5. ↑ Kikuth, Walter, Mudrow, Lilly: Malaria transmission attempts with blood and organs of sporozoa-infected canaries . In: Rivista di Malariologia Sez I. . No. 1 , 1938, p. 1-14 .
  6. ↑ Kikuth, Walter, Mudrow, Lilly: The endothelial stages of the malaria parasites in experiment and theory . In: Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde and Infectious Diseases, Dept. Originals . tape 142 , no. 3/4 , 1938, p. 113-132 .
  7. ^ Bray, Robert Stow: Studies on the exo-erythrocytic cycle in the genus Plasmodium . Lewis, London 1957.
personal data
SURNAME Mudrow-Reichenow, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mudrow-Reichenow, Lilly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1957