Ernst August Pribram

Ernst August Pribram (also Přibram; born February 2, 1879 in Prague , † September 14, 1940 Chicago , in the USA called Ernest A. Pribram ) was an Austrian pathologist and biochemist . He is a member of the Pribram medical family .

Life

Pribram studied medicine at the University of Prague and received his doctorate there in 1903. med. He then stayed in Strasbourg and Vienna for additional studies before returning to Vienna. There he was assistant in 1907 and inspector in 1919 and director in 1924 at the State Serotherapeutic Institute and, after his habilitation in 1911, at the same time private lecturer and from 1915 associate professor for general and experimental pathology at the University of Vienna.

In 1925 Pribram immigrated to the USA , where he was professor of bacteriology and preventive medicine at Loyola University in Chicago from 1928 to 1940, and from 1938 also a pathologist at St. Elisabeth's Hospital in Chicago.

Fonts

• The importance of swelling and de-swelling for physiological and pathological phenomena , 1910
• The current holdings of the former Král collection of microorganisms , 1919
• The main methods of working with mushrooms , 1924 (with Franz Zach)
• The main methods of working with bacteria , 1925
• Classification of the Schizomycetes , 1933
• Attempt to scientifically classify bacteria on a botanical basis , 1933

literature

• Rudolf M. Wlaschek, Biographia Judaica Bohemiae , Vol. 1, Dortmund 1995, p. 171
• Neue Freie Presse (Vienna) of December 24, 1915
• Heribert Sturm, Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands , Vol. III, Munich 2000, p. 312
• M. Jantsch:  Pribram Ernst August. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 275.