Friedrich Plehn

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Friedrich Plehn (* 15. April 1862 in Lubochin ( county Schwetz / West Prussia); † April 29 (according to other sources: 30 August ) 1904 in Schotteck in Bremen ) was a German tropical medicine and government doctor in the German colonies Cameroon and Germany East Africa .

origin

His parents were Anton Plehn (1834–1887), landowner and farmer in Lubochin, and Johanna Maercker (1838–1888). His siblings were Albert Plehn (1861–1935), tropical medicine; Marianne Plehn (1865-1946), zoologist; Rose Plehn (1865–1945), painter, and Rudolf Plehn (1868–1899), forest scientist.

Life

Plehn attended high school in Marienwerder with his brother Albert . Then both studied medicine at the University of Kiel . In 1886 and 1887, respectively, they passed the state examination in Kiel and became Dr. med. PhD. Plehn then initially worked as an assistant doctor at the bacteriological institute at the University of Jena and at the Moabit Hospital in Berlin. As a ship's doctor on several trips on Dutch merchant ships to South America , Japan and the Sunda Islands, he supplemented Italian and French research on the etiology of malaria and in 1893 went to Duala (Cameroon) as a government doctor . He recognized the role of quinine in the etiology of hemoglobinuric malaria fever (black water fever), which at the time many authors regarded as a variant of yellow fever . By doing without quinine treatment, he managed to reduce the mortality rate of this most dangerous malaria complication by more than half. In 1894 he left Cameroon for health reasons and - also as a government doctor - was transferred to the climatically healthier Tanga on the coast of German East Africa. His successor in Cameroon was his brother Albert. However, Plehn soon had to give up this position for health reasons. From 1901 he therefore worked as a teacher of Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the Oriental Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , also of him was character as Professor awarded. In 1903 Plehn resigned from colonial service due to an illness of his wife and moved back to Africa. In Egypt he founded a sanatorium in Helwan for Europeans with lung and kidney disease and colonists from South and East Asia. Even seriously ill, he came back to Germany in 1904, where he died a short time later.

Fonts

  • Etiological and clinical malaria studies , Verlag von Hirschwald, 1890.
  • About black water fever on the African west coast , German Medical Wochenschrift , pp. 416–18, 434–37, 485, 1895.
  • About the practically usable successes of previous etiological research on malaria , Archive for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, 1897.
  • The Cameroon Coast, studies of climatology, physiology and pathology in the tropical publishing house von Hirschwald, 1898.
  • On the etiology of black water fever , Archive for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, pp. 378–89, 1899;
  • The latest research on malaria prophylaxis in Italy and its importance in relation to tropical hygiene, Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, 1900.
  • About the sanitation of tropical malaria countries , Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, 1901.
  • About the practical results of the more recent malaria research and some other tasks of the same , Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1901.
  • Transition stations for tropical patients , Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, 1902.
  • Tropical hygiene , Verlag von Fischer, Jena, 1902.
  • Report on an information trip to Ceylon and India , in: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, pp. 273-311, 1899.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Plehn. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 67 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Ekkehart Rumberger:  Plehn, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 524 f. ( Digitized version ).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Plehn, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubochin ( Schwetz district , West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1904
Place of death Schotteck near Bremen