Emil von Dungern

Emil Freiherr von Dungern (born November 26, 1867 in Würzburg , † September 4, 1961 in Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance ) was a German internist .

Emil von Dungern attended until 1887 in Freiburg the school . He then studied medicine in Freiburg , Munich and Berlin . After receiving his doctorate and approbation in 1892, he completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1896, where he became associate professor in 1902. From 1906 to 1913 he worked as director of the biological department of the cancer institute of Vincenz Czerny in Heidelberg , before he himself headed the cancer institute of the clinic in Hamburg-Eppendorf was appointed, which he headed until 1918.

Emil von Dungern enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a serologist, bacteriologist and physiologist . Especially his blood group research together with Ludwik Hirszfeld (Ludwig Hirschfeld) had a pioneering effect and led to new insights in the field of paternity determination. With him in 1910 he was the first to provide evidence of the heredity of the blood groups discovered and differentiated by Karl Landsteiner from 1901 onwards. He also developed a significant research career in the field of immunity and cancer .

Fonts (selection)

• with Ludwik Hirszfeld : About the detection and inheritance of biochemical structures. In: Journal for Immunity Research and Experimental Therapy , Vol. 4, 1910, pp. 531-546
• with Ludwik Hirszfeld: On inheritance of group-specific structures of the blood. In: Journal for Immunity Research and Experimental Therapy , Vol. 6, 1910, pp. 284-292.
• with Ludwik Hirszfeld: About group-specific structures of the blood. In: Journal for Immunity Research and Experimental Therapy , Vol. 8, 1911, pp. 526-562

literature

• Emil Freiherr von Dungern , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1953 from December 29, 1952, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)