Erich Hoffmann (doctor)
Erich Hoffmann (born April 25, 1868 in Witzmitz , Pomerania ; † May 8, 1959 in Bonn , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German dermatologist . He invented the luminous image method in microscopy .
Life
Erich Hoffmann was born the son of a pastor in Witzmitz, studied medicine from 1887 to 1893 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1892. He then worked as a military doctor at the Charité Dermatology Clinic.
Hoffmann and Fritz Schaudinn discovered the syphilis pathogen Spirochaeta pallida (today Treponema pallidum ) at the Charité Clinic in Berlin in 1905 .
In 1908 Hoffmann became a professor at the University of Halle . From 1910 to 1934 he was Joseph Doutrelepont's successor at the University of Bonn , and from 1918 as a full professor. At these universities he lectured and held the highest positions. In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Hoffmann agreed to accept Eva Glees as a doctoral student after she had passed her state examination in November 1933 and, despite the hostility for the subsequent doctorate, had started looking for a doctoral supervisor - initially unsuccessfully, as no professor wanted to accept a Jewish doctoral student : "He was very nationally German , but also very brave." Because of his opposition to the Nazi regime , Hoffmann was dismissed from civil service in 1934. In a lecture he had said that he preferred a Jew in a white coat to a Nazi in a brown coat .
After his retirement , Hoffmann worked at the Georg-Speyer-Haus Foundation in Frankfurt am Main .
During the National Socialist era , Hoffmann lived outside Germany, but returned to Bonn, where he set up a laboratory .
Honors
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1978: A street in Bonn is named after him.
Fonts
- Etiology of Syphilis. Springer, Berlin 1906.
- Atlas of Etiological and Experimental Syphilis Research. Springer, Berlin 1908.
- A case of aortic rupture. Leipzig 1908.
- Advances in the detection and treatment of syphilis. Long-term success of the combined mercury-salvarsan treatment. Bonn 1913.
- The treatment of skin and sex diseases with brief diagnostics. 10th edition. Marcus and Weber, Berlin 1948.
- Life memories from a turning point in medicine. Volume 1: Willing and Creating: 1868–1932. Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hanover 1948.
- Life memories from a turning point in medicine. Volume 2: Struggle for Completion: 1933–1946. Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hanover 1949.
literature
- Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .
- Horst Zoske: Hoffmann, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 406 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Erich Hoffmann . In: Karin Orth: Expulsion from the science system. Commemorative book for the committee members of the DFG expelled under National Socialism, Stuttgart: Steiner 2018 (Contributions to the history of the German Research Foundation; 7), pp. 169–175. ISBN 978-3-515-11953-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Erich Hoffmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Hoffmann, Erich. 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. 608 f.
- ^ A b Elemir Macedo de Souza: A hundred years ago, the discovery of Treponema pallidum. In: Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia . 80, No. 5, 2005, pp. 547f. (viewed June 27, 2008)
- ↑ a b Eva Glees - A Jewish student at the University of Bonn ( Memento from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Erich-Hoffmann-Strasse in the Bonn street cadastre
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dermatologist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Joke , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1959 |
| Place of death | Bonn |