Gustav Wolffhügel

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Gustav Wolffhügel (born August 27, 1845 in Landau in the Palatinate , † January 30, 1899 in Göttingen ) was a German hygienist and university professor.

Life

Wolffhügel studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . He presented his dissertation on the subject of knowledge of leukemic neoplasms in Würzburg in 1870, his habilitation took place in 1875. From 1865 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . In 1869 he became an assistant doctor in Heidelberg. After taking part in the Franco-German War as a medical officer and receiving the Iron Cross 2nd Class, he became a general practitioner in Neustadt an der Haardt in 1872 . From 1873 he was with Max von Pettenkofer at the Hygiene Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As a member of the government , he became a full member of the Imperial Health Department in Berlin in 1879 . Until 1886 he headed the hygienic laboratory. In 1887 he followed the call of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to the chair and became director of the institutes for medicinal chemistry and hygiene. Wolffhügel developed a counting apparatus (Wolffhügelscher counting apparatus) for calculating bacterial cultures. He had two sons with his wife Anna from Neustadt. He died at the age of 54.

Honors

In 1887 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

See also

literature

  • Gabriele Christoph: Life and work of the hygienist Gustav Wolffhügel (1845–1899) . Dissertation, Erfurt 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published by Müller in Karlsruhe in 1870.
  2. ↑ Gustav Wolffhügel: About the pollution of the soil by street canals, lavatory and fertilizer pits. Munich: Schurich, 1875.
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 209/230.
  4. ↑ a b c Archive Corps Rhenania Würzburg
  5. ↑ See Emil Gotschlich, Walter Schürmann: Guide to Microparasitology and Serology. Berlin: Springer, 1920. - Fig. Of the apparatus on p. 144.
  6. ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Gustav Wolffhügel (with picture)
personal data
SURNAME Wolffhügel, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist and university professor in Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1899
Place of death Goettingen