Emil Hess (veterinarian)

Emil Hess (born February 14, 1911 in Roggwil , † February 6, 2004 in Hefenhofen ; resident in Hefenhofen) was a Swiss veterinarian and university professor .

Family and education

Raised in Häuslen-Roggwil Emil Hess, son of peasants senior Emil Hess and his wife Pauline, born Zullig, turned to the acquisition of the Swiss Matura at the Kantonsschule Burggraben studying veterinary medicine at the University of Zurich and the University of Vienna to which the pupil of Walter Frei and Leo Riedmüller finished in 1936. Emil Hess then completed his doctorate , interrupted by a tubercular eye disease .

Emil Hess, who was married to Margaretha Elisabeth, born Lampartscherl, died in February 2004 at the age of 92.

academic career

After working as an assistant at the University of Zurich , Emil Hess completed his habilitation in 1944 in the subject of veterinary bacteriology, in 1946, after Leo Riedmüller had left, he was elected associate professor in his habilitation subject and director of the institute of the same name, which was renamed the Institute for Veterinary Hygiene in 1979, in 1954 he was promoted to full professor , in 1981 he resigned from his offices. Emil Hess, the first Swiss university professor to teach veterinary food hygiene as an independent subject, recorded particular successes in the use against the Newcastle virus in poultry imports with transmission attempts, bovine brucellosis with the laborious cultural pathogen detection and trichomoniasis in bulls with vigorous local disinfection. During the implementation phase, these applications were replaced by serological methods with reagent erasure, or by covering hygiene with artificial insemination . Hess, honorary member of the German Veterinary Medical Society , received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1971 in recognition of his special services in his field .

Publications

• Influencing processes of infection and immunity by neurovegetative poisons. Diss. Vet.-Med. Univ. Zurich. [With 1 diagram and tables.] 54 pp. 23 × 15.5 cm, Buchdr. J. Hagmann, Zurich, 1939
• Poultry diseases and their prevention, Association printing, Bern, 1958
• Hygienically perfect serving of Kannenmilch, in: Volume 74 by Bibliotheca lactis, Carl, Nuremberg, 1960

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, p. 915.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Vol. 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 1505.
• Hans Girsberger: Who's Who in Switzerland 1980-81: Including the Principality of Liechtenstein, 1980-1981, Central European Times Publishing Company Limited, Zurich, 1981, p. 280.
• Ulrich Hübscher: Prof. Dr. Emil Hess: February 14, 1911 to February 6, 2004, in: Nekrologe / Universität Zürich (2004), Universität Zürich, Zürich, 2004, pp. 13-14.