Eugen Fraenkel
Eugen F. Fraenkel (born September 28, 1853 in Neustadt i. OS ; † December 20, 1925 in Hamburg ) was a German medic.
Life
Fraenkel worked as a pathologist and bacteriologist at the Eppendorfer Hospital , where he discovered the gas fire bacillus ( Bacillus' fraenkeli , later renamed Clostridium perfringens ). During the First World War he served in the German army .
Eugen Fraenkel was married to Marie (born German, 1861–1944). The couple had three children: Max Fraenkel (1882–1938), Hans Fraenkel (1888–1971) and Margarete Kuttner nee. Fraenkel (1884-1944). Hans left Germany to work as an economist and journalist in Switzerland ; his descendants live in Switzerland and Italy . Max, the doctor in Hamburg, was committed under the pressure of anti-Semitic harassment suicide . Marie perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , Margarete, who had moved to Berlin , in November 1944 during the last gassings in Auschwitz-Birkenau .
Works
- About kidney changes after sulfuric acid poisoning . 1893 ( digitized version )
literature
- Personal communication from Paul Kuttner, New York City, USA, son of Margarete Kuttner b. Fraenkel
- Carl Krauspe: Fraenkel, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 312 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Kuttner: An Endless Struggle - Reminiscences and Reflections, Vantage Press, 2009
Web links
- Brief introduction to the Fraenkel family (Low German)
- Fro Professer Fraenkel Frau Professor Fraenkel (Low German)
- The professor, cholera and thousands of deaths
- Newspaper article about Eugen Fraenkel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fraenkel, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fraenkel, Eugen F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist and bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1925 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |