Fritz Kauffmann (bacteriologist)

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Fritz Kauffmann (born January 15, 1899 in Preußisch Stargard ; † September 27, 1978 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) was a German-Danish serologist and bacteriologist who created important foundations for veterinary medicine and food hygiene .

Life

Fritz Kauffmann was one of five children and grew up in Prussian Stargard. In December 1922 he went to Berlin to work as a medical intern in bacteriology. His passion for microbiology was awakened by reading Robert Koch's work The Etiology of Anthrax Disease (published 1876). He worked at the Robert Koch Institute from 1923 to 1932 ; initially as an intern, a volunteer with a Rockefeller scholarship, and as an unscheduled assistant and from 1929 onwards as a regular assistant. He then went to Switzerland to recover from tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Davos . In 1933 the Jewish merchant fled to Denmark to escape the National Socialists. From there he fled to Sweden . He later returned to Copenhagen to work as a bacteriologist.

Act

From 1933 to 1978, Kauffmann expanded the scheme developed by the British bacteriologist Philip Bruce White (1891-1949) for the classification of salmonella on a serological basis. As a result, it was called the Kauffmann-White scheme .

In Copenhagen, Kauffmann headed the World Reference Center of Salmonellae . For his services to medical microbiology, he received the Aronson Prize in 1958 and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1964 .

literature

  • Fritz Kauffmann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/1964 of March 9, 1964, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  • Fritz Kauffmann: Memories of a Bacteriologist. Copenhagen 1969.
  • Joseph Parnas: In memoriam Fritz Kauffmann (1899–1978) - Primus mundi of salmonella research. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 7, 1989, pp. 347–352.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Mayr : The importance of F. Kauffmann for the veterinary bacteriology and food hygiene. In: Joseph Parnas (1989), p. 347 f.
  2. ↑ Stefan Winkle : Dear colleague Parnas! In: Joseph Parnas (1989), p. 350.
  3. ↑ Joseph Parnas (1989), p. 348 f.
  4. ^ White, PB Further Studies of the Salmonella Group . Great Britain Medical Research Council 103, (Her Majesty's Stationary Office), 3-160, 1926.
  5. ^ Kauffmann, F. Das Fundament , Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1978.
  6. ^ Joseph Parnas (1989), p. 347
  7. ^ Georg Henneberg : In Memoriam Fritz Kauffmann. In: Joseph Parnas (1989), p. 348 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Starogard Gdański
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1978
Place of death Copenhagen