Erwin von Esmarch

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Erwin von Esmarch (born March 12, 1855 in Kiel , † February 4, 1915 in Göttingen ) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist .

Life

As the son of Friedrich von Esmarch he studied 1876-1880 medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and the Kaiser-Wilhelm University of Strasbourg . There doctorate he in 1881 to Dr. med. From 1882 to 1884 he was assistant to the ophthalmologist Karl Schweigger , from 1885 to 1891 to Robert Koch in Berlin . In 1890 he completed his habilitation at the Charité for hygiene .

The Albertus University in Königsberg appointed him as associate professor in 1891 . In 1897 he received her chair . Two years later he followed the call of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as the successor to Gustav Wolffhügel .

Esmarch was particularly dedicated to disinfection and hygiene in private households and schools . He was the first to cultivate the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum .

Esmarch had married Else Ravené in 1883, with whom he had the daughter Louise Henriette Amelie (* 1887). After the early death of his wife, he married Elvire von Voigts-Rhetz (* 1868), daughter of the Prussian artillery general Julius von Voigts-Rhetz, on November 29, 1892 in Naumburg (Saale) . Esmarch died at the age of 60 and only survived his father by seven years. After his death and the end of the First World War , his wife had to sell the house at Goldgraben in Göttingen.

literature

  • Howard Gest: A serendipic legacy - Erwin Esmarch's isolation of the first photosynthetic bacterium in pure culture. Photosynthesis Research 46 (1995), pp. 473-478.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Gest, 1995
  2. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1907. First year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1906, pp. 792–794.
  3. ↑ History and picture of the villa (2008) (PDF; 324 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Esmarch, Erwin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bacteriologist, hygienist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1915
Place of death Goettingen