Friedrich Fülleborn

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Friedrich Georg Hans Heinrich Fülleborn (born September 13, 1866 in Kulm in West Prussia , † September 9, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a tropical medicine specialist and scientist. He was an Imperial Government Doctor in the Army.

Life

Cooking course at the Hamburg Colonial Institute under the direction of Professor Fülleborn (September 1921)

Fülleborn studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Berlin from 1888 to 1893 , among others with Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer . In 1895 he received his doctorate.

As early as 1896 he entered the service of the protection force in German East Africa as an imperial government doctor and took part in the battles against the Wahehe . In the meantime, he led the expeditions to the southern mountain regions, on the one hand to the Nayassa Mountains . Another expedition led to the Kinga Mountains .

In 1901 he was appointed as a medical officer of the protection force to head the department for tropical medicine and tropical hygiene at the Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases (Hamburg; today: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ). He headed this, as the successor to Bernhard Nocht , from 1930 until his death in 1933. His successor was Peter Mühlens . Since 1907 he held the title of professor. Fülleborn undertook tropical medical research trips to India, China, Egypt and North and South America.

From 1908 to 1909 he headed the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation , initiated and organized by Georg Thilenius , the director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg , but left most of his employees after a year due to disputes. He left the Schutztruppe in 1910.

In 1911 he was involved in the conception and development of the topic of tropical hygiene at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden, along with five other scientists. During the First World War he was first a regimental doctor on the Western Front , then a hygienist in Macedonia and France. He received the Iron Cross and the Wound Badge .

In 1916 Carl Mense Fülleborn handed over the editing of the "Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene", Germany's first independent tropical medical journal. Other editors were Fülleborn's colleagues from the Hamburg Tropical Institute Martin Mayer and Peter Mühlens .

From 1919 he held the chair for tropical medicine at the University of Hamburg as an associate professor. From 1921 he was a secret medical councilor . In 1926 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . On behalf of the Argentine government, he fought the worm disease ancylostomiasis there in 1927 .

Honors

  • The common common cichlid (Labeotropheus fuelleborni) found in Lake Malawi was named after him.
  • In New Guinea , the small town of Fulleborn (6 ° 08 '00 "S, 150 ° 38' 00" E) is named after him.

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Fischer : The Hamburg South Sea Expedition: About Ethnography and Colonialism. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-8108-0187-9 , p. 64.
  2. ↑ Fülleborn, Friedrich. In: Biographisches Handbuch Deutsch-Neuguinea 1882–1922: Brief biography of former colonists, researchers, missionaries and travelers. 2nd, improved edition. Schaltungsdienst Lange, Berlin 2002, p. 107.
  3. ↑ Cf. Andreas Leipold: The first year of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition in German New Guinea (1908–1909). Salzwasser-Verlag, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86741-059-5 (Master's thesis, University of Bayreuth, 2006).
  4. ^ Official catalog of the International Hygiene Exhibition Dresden 1911. Verlag Rudolf Mosse, Berlin 1911.
  5. ^ Olaf Brethauer: The tropical medicine specialist Carl Mense (1861-1938), life and work , archive of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2000
personal data
SURNAME Fülleborn, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fülleborn, Friedrich Georg Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulm , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1933
Place of death Hamburg