Erich Martini (marine doctor)

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Erich Martini (born March 3, 1867 in Neuchâtel , Schwetz district , West Prussia ; † July 23, 1953 in Bogotá ) was a German medical officer. He should not be confused with Erich Martini (zoologist) .

Life

The son of Karl Martini, district court director in Lissa ( Province of Posen ), (1834-1915) and the mother Hedwig (1843-1930) and brother of Wolfgang Martini graduated from October 1881 to February 1890 at the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy in Berlin medical training. From 1897 to 1899 he was deployed on board the SMS Falke in Samoa . A command led him from January 1 to March 31, 1900 to the Hygiene Institute in Berlin and from March 1901 to the end of December 1904 to the Institute for Infectious Diseases . From 1901 to 1902 he was commissioned to keep the dock and shipyard workers free from malaria in Wilhelmshaven . Bernhard Möllers counts him among Robert Koch's students . In 1907 Martini was commanded to the German Kiautschou protected area . There he was chief physician of the Tsingtau naval hospital until 1910, with the rank of senior naval officer. In 1910/11 he was involved in the fight against pneumonic plague in Shantung . From 1911 he was again head of the bacteriological and malaria investigation station in Wilhelmshaven.

Martini was used as a typhus chief in the civil administration in Poland during the First World War . His rank there was that of a marine general surgeon (frigate captain), which he led since April 10, 1911 and the location Wloclawek . He was released from the Reichsmarine on April 27, 1921 while simultaneously being promoted to the character of a marine general physician (captain at sea) . In 1921, the Colombian government hired Martini to evaluate the campaign to combat leprosy . Martini declared the disease to be highly infectious, justifying strict isolation measures. The Colombian doctor Carlos Esguerra contradicted this. He later worked on yellow fever in a laboratory in Bogotá .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the pulmonary plague , 1901/02
  • Malaria prevention work in Wilhelmshaven , 1901/03
  • Studies of Tsetse Disease and Sleeping Sickness , 1901/05
  • Investigations into the Ruhr in its various forms, with a special focus on East Asia , 1907/11
  • Research on the Surra of the Philippines Islands , 1909
  • Experimental evidence for the species diversity of piroplasms and trypanosomes , Manila 1909

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medicine and Colonial Imperialism: Germany 1884-1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, p. 473, Erich Martini completed his habilitation and held the title of professor.
  2. ↑ Personal data set of the German National Library
  3. ^ Journal of tropical medicine and parasitology 5 , No. 1, January 1954, p. 137.
  4. ↑ a b c Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2. Quelle & Meier, Leipzig 1920, p. 518. ( online at uni-frankfurt.de)
  5. ^ Entry on his brother Wolfgang Martini in: Karl Otto Hoffmann:  Martini, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 301 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ^ Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2. Quelle & Meier, Leipzig 1920, p. 518, combined with: Bernhard Möllers: Robert Koch. Personality and life's work 1843–1910 . Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hannover 1950, p. 392.
  7. ^ Bernhard Möllers: Robert Koch. Personality and life's work 1843–1910 . Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf., Hannover 1950, p. 392.
  8. ^ Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2. Quelle & Meier, Leipzig 1920, p. 518. According to this source, he was in US service in the Philippines in 1909 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart: Medicine and Colonial Imperialism: Germany 1884-1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, p. 476. The author refers to the rankings of the Imperial Navy 1899–1914.
  10. ^ Honorary ranking of the Imperial German Navy, 1914–1918 . Processing: Kontreadmiral a. D. Stoelzel, Berlin, Thormann & Goetsch 1930, p. 1361
  11. ↑ Diana Obregón: The anti-leprosy campaign in Colombia: the rhetoric of hygiene and science, 1920-1940 . In: História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos . Volume 10, Supplement 1, 2003. The rest of the information on Martini in this article is based on confusion with Erich Martini (1880–1960).
  12. ^ E. Martini: A comparison of the spirochete of yellow fever (Leptospira icteroides Noguchi) with the Leptospira of Weil's Disease. In: The Journal of experimental medicine. Volume 47, Number 2, January 1928, pp. 255-260, PMID 19869411 , PMC 2131351 (free full text).
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel , Schwetz district , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1953
Place of death Bogotá