Friedrich Loeffler (medic, 1852)

Friedrich Loeffler

Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler (born June 24, 1852 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 9, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German hygienist and bacteriologist .

Life

Friedrich Loeffler was the son of the physician Friedrich Loeffler and his wife Emilie Mathilde, b. Longer. He graduated in 1870 at the University of Würzburg medicine and in 1870 the Corps Moenania Würzburg recipiert . He switched to the Medicinisch-Surgical Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut , where he joined the Pépinière-Corps Suevo-Borussia. After graduating, he worked for Robert Koch at the Imperial Health Department . He discovered the causative agents of infectious diseases such as snot , diphtheria (in 1884 with Edwin Klebs the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae ) and erysipelas . In 1888 he became professor for hygiene and the history of medicine at the Royal University of Greifswald . Together with Paul Frosch, he described the pathogen causing foot-and-mouth disease as a particulate agent, smaller than a bacterium . This made him a co-founder of virology . The foot-and-mouth disease virus was the first virus described in the animal world (about 10 years earlier, Dimitri Iwanowski and Martinus Willem Beijerinck had discovered the tobacco mosaic virus in plants). He succeeded in producing the first protective serum against foot and mouth disease, which, however, was not used for reasons of cost. Loeffler also worked as a communal hygienist in Greifswald. He was involved in the fight against epidemics and infectious diseases, campaigned for the improvement of city cleaning and the removal system and the construction of the sewer system in Greifswald. His saying “And it will be built!”, Which he defiantly hurled at the opponents of the sewerage project, is often quoted. In 1910 he founded the first virological research institute on Riems . He left it when he was appointed head of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin in 1913 . Loeffler died in Berlin in 1915 at the age of 62. He was buried in the old cemetery in Greifswald. One son was the orthopedist Friedrich Loeffler .

Essential work

• with P. Frosch: Reports of the Commission for Research on Foot and Mouth Disease at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. Zbl. Bakt. I / Orig 22 (1897), pp. 257-259 and 23 (1898), pp. 371-391.
• On the question of immunity. Mitt. Kaiser. Health department. 1 (1882), pp. 134-187.
• Studies on the importance of microorganisms for the development of diphtheria in humans, pigeons and calves. Mittheilungen from the Imperial Health Office 2 (1884), pp. 421–499.

Honors

Friedrich Loeffler (Frankfurt a. O.)

• Corps loop of Guestfalia Greifswald (July 19, 1902)
• Honorary member of the Corps Suevo-Borussia
• Honorary Citizen of Greifswald (1913)
• Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Riems (renamed 1952)
• Commemorative coin of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden for the 100th birthday
• Dr. iur. hc from the University of Aberdeen
• Dr. med. vet. hc from the Hessian Ludwig University
• Friedrich-Loeffler-Strasse in Greifswald
• Löfflergasse in Vienna- Hietzing (1931)
• Special postmark of the 105th German Medical Association (Rostock 2002)
• Special postage stamp (85 cents) for the 100th anniversary of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on October 7, 2010 ( Michel no . 2825)
• The research and supply ship of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, which was in its service until 1974, was named Privy Councilor Loeffler .
• Loeffler Frosch Prize of the Society for Virology (GfV), since 1994
• Loeffler Frog Medal

See also

• Alter Friedhof (Greifswald) #Other forms of tombs in the Old Cemetery
• List of corps student rectors

literature

• Joachim Boessneck:  Löffler, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 33 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Butzer: Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Loeffler. In: Einst und Jetzt, Jahrbuch des Verein für Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 40 (1995), pp. 27–32.
• Werner Köhler : Loeffler, Friedrich August Johannes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005. ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 861.
• Gert H. Brieger: Loeffler (Löffler), Friedrich August Johannes . In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography . tape 8 : Jonathan Homer Lane - Pierre Joseph Macquer . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1973, p. 448-451 .
• Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography , Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1981, ISBN 0-684-16650-X , p. 434
• Isaac Asimov : Biographical Encyclopedia of Natural Sciences and Technology , Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16718-2 , p. 375

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Loeffler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Loeffler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Friedrich Loeffler in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 141/455; 55/284
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 61/72
3. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Epidemic Radar on the Bodden. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 9, 2010, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Friedrich Loeffler - co-founder of virology. In: Focus Online . March 6, 2009, accessed June 15, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Corp panel of the Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia . Kirchberg 1990, p. 185, no.1497 .
6. ↑ 100 years of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute ( Memento from September 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Federal Research Institute for Animal Health.
7. ↑ Badges and medals GDR (Dresden district)
8. ↑ Gisela Klinkhammer: In honor of Friedrich Loeffler: Ärztetags special cancellation. In: Dtsch Arztebl. 2002; 99 (22), p. 100. (online)
9. ^ Commemorative stamp 100 years of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute
10. ↑ Website for this award, at the GfV , accessed on April 28, 2020
11. ↑ Loeffler Frosch Medal on the GfV website , accessed on April 28, 2020

predecessor	Office	successor
Felix Stoerk	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1903	Franz Schuett