Gertrud Theiler

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Gertrud Theiler (born September 11, 1897 in Pretoria , South African Republic ; died May 2, 1986 in Stilbaai , South Africa ) was a South African parasitologist and teacher. Her specialties were Strongylida and other parasitic roundworms in the digestive system of South African equidae , as well as African ticks and the zoonoses they transmit .

Life

Gertrud Theiler grew up in Pretoria as the daughter of the Swiss-South African veterinarian and parasitologist Arnold Theiler . Her younger brother was the doctor, bacteriologist and virologist Max Theiler , who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for discovering a yellow fever vaccine . After attending Pretoria High School for Girls, she studied for a year at Rhodes University and then moved to South African College in Cape Town , where she received her B.Sc. graduated. She then completed postgraduate studies with Otto Fuhrmann at the natural science faculty of the University of Neuchâtel , where she received her doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on Strongylida and other parasitic roundworms in the digestive system of South African equidae . During her subsequent studies with Warrington Yorke at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and with Robert Thomson Leiper at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , Theiler wrote four publications, one of which is considered a standard work on the strongyles of the South African equidae.

After her return from Europe, Theiler worked as a biology teacher for 15 years, first for two years at the Jeppe High School for Girls in Johannesburg and then for three years at Huguenot University College in Wellington . There she was promoted to professor in 1935. Theiler left Wellington after three years and taught zoology at Rhodes University for a short time. In 1940 she was appointed to the entomology department of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital in Pretoria, where she researched for more than 25 years.

During her work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, Theiler made valuable contributions to the taxonomy and zoogeography of African ticks. In addition, she built a unique collection of African ticks. The national tick collection of South Africa was named Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum in 2005 in honor of Theiler . In 1967 Theiler retired, but continued to work in her laboratory and turned back to helminthology . It was not until 1983 that the loss of hearing and deteriorating eyesight made further research impossible.

Theiler wrote a biography of her father Arnold Theiler and was active in nature conservation and dog care for decades . She spent the last years of her life in Stilbaai in the Western Cape , where she died in early May 1986.

Publications

  • Gertrud Theiler: The strongylids and other nematodes parasitic in the intestinal tract of South African equines . 1922 (dissertation).
  • Gertrud Theiler: Arnold Theiler (1867–1936), His Life and Times . Van Schaik, Pretoria 1971.

Initial descriptions

Dedication names

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jane B. Walker : In Memoriam Gertrud Theiler. 11 September 1897 - 2 May 1986 . In: Journal of the South African Veterinary Association . tape 58 , no. 2 , 1987, pp. 99-100 ( up.ac.za [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  2. ↑ Carleton M. Clifford , Gertrud Theiler, Maureen Baker : Ixodes (Afrixodes) drakensbergensis n. Sp. from domestic and wild animals in Natal, Republic of South Africa. In: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research . tape 42 , no. 1 , 1975, p. 33-40 ( up.ac.za [PDF; 923 kB ]).
  3. ^ Harry Hoogstraal , Makram N. Kaiser : The Subgenus Persicargas (Ixodoidea, Argasidae, Argas). 8. A. (P.) theilerae, New Species, a Parasite of the White-Backed Vulture in South Africa . In: Annals of the Entomological Society of America . tape 63 , no. 1 , 1970, p. 205-210 , doi : 10.1093 / aesa / 63.1.205 .
  4. ^ Harry Hoogstraal : Ticks (Ixodoidea) of the Malagasy Faunal Region (Excepting the Seychelles). Their origins and host relationships; with descriptions of five new Haemaphysalis species . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . tape 111 , no. 2 , 1953, p. 37-113 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dbulletinofmuseum111harv~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn55~double-sided%3Dja~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  5. ↑ Don R. Arthur: Ixodes theileri n. Sp., With observations on species confused therewith . In: Parasitology . tape 43 , no. 3-4 , 1953, pp. 239–245 , doi : 10.1017 / s0031182000018606 .
  6. ^ OGH Fiedler : A new African tick parasite, Hunterellus theilerae, n.sp. In: Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research . tape 26 , no. 1 ,, 1953, p. 61–63 ( up.ac.za [PDF; 181 kB ]).
  7. ↑ Brouria Feldman-Muhsam : The South African Ticks Rhipicephalus capensis Koch and R. gertrudae n. Sp. In: The Journal of Parasitology . tape 46 , no. 1 , 1960, p. 101-108 , doi : 10.2307 / 3275342 .
personal data
SURNAME Theiler, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria , South African Republic
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1986
Place of death Stilbaai , South Africa