Enrique Paschen
Enrique Fedrico Mauricio Paschen (born December 30, 1860 in Tacubaya , Mexico , † October 22, 1936 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor, vaccinator and microbiologist. He was the first to detect (indirectly) viruses, especially the variola smallpox virus .
Life
Born in Mexico as the son of the commercial consul Conrad G. Paschen, Paschen studied medicine in Heidelberg and Leipzig . He became an assistant doctor at the St. Georg General Hospital in Hamburg , resident doctor in Hamburg in 1888 and was an assistant doctor at the Hamburg State Vaccination Institute from 1890 to 1911. From 1914 to 1930 he was chief vaccinator and head of this institution. In 1911 and 1912 he checked the smallpox vaccinations in the Imperial Protected Area of Togo. In 1912 he became a professor in Hamburg. After retiring, he worked at the Hamburg Tropical Institute and was honorary professor at the University of Hamburg . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
The first, still vague morphological proof of smallpox was possible in 1906 with a light microscope . He described the uniformly colored particles in children's lymph , then also in other fluids, named by him "elementary bodies" and after him "Paschen's bodies" (inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of the smallpox-infected cell) . From 1908 he saw them as the causative agent of smallpox , which until the mid-1920s, however, only slowly established itself as the doctrinal opinion. Paschen was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1936 .
literature
- Peter Voswinckel: Paschen, Enrique Federico Mauricio. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 82 ( digitized version ).
- Wolfgang U. Eckart : Paschen, Enrique Frederico Mauricio. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1110.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Enrique Frederico Mauricio Paschen , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung München p. 277, 2nd edition 2001 p. 242, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 252. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
- ↑ Enrique Paschen: What do we know about the vaccine pathogen? In: Munich Medical Weekly. Volume 53, 1906, pp. 2391-2393.
- ^ Enrique Paschen's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 10, 2016.
Web links
- Newspaper article about Enrique Paschen in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paschen, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paschen, Enrique Fedrico Mauricio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist and first person to describe the variola smallpox virus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tacubaya , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1936 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |