Hans Eppinger senior

Hans Eppinger (born December 17, 1848 in Karolinenthal ( Karlín (Prague) ), † August 12, 1916 in Graz ) was an Austrian physician and university professor in Prague and Graz.

Origin and relatives

Hans Eppinger senior, a brother of Carl Eppinger (1853–1911), leader of the German liberals in the Bohemian state parliament, married to Anna Marterer (1851–1925), was a son of Heinrich Eppinger (1813–1868), notary and director of the monastery monastery Braunau ( Broumov ) in Bohemia and his wife Aloisia Salomon. He married Georgine Zetter (* 1885) in Klagenfurt in 1908, had two daughters and the son Hans Eppinger junior .

Life

After studying at the University of Prague , Hans Eppinger senior received his doctorate in medicine in 1869, was a student of Vaclav Treitz (1819–1872) and assistant to his successor Edwin Klebs (1834–1913). From 1872 Eppinger was a private lecturer and became a member of the Carolina Prague fraternity , after 1945 the Carolina fraternity of Prague in Munich and from 1875 was associate professor at the University of Prague.

From 1882 to 1912 Hans Eppinger senior was professor of pathological anatomy at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz in Styria , was elected university rector in 1891 and retired in 1912.

meaning

Hans Eppinger's main merit in pathological anatomy lies in the field of bacteriology and infectious diseases , which he illuminated by the description of a new pathogenic cladothrix and the pseudotuberculosis caused by it, as well as by his monograph on rag disease . In this case, he was able to provide evidence that it was an infection through inhalation of spores and a primary anthrax disease . Likewise, in his extensive publication "Pathogenesis, Histogenesis and Aetiology of Aneurysms", the bacteriological part is the trend-setting one, because it brings the discovery and description of the embolic-mycotic aneurysm.

Honors

• 1885: Member of the Leopoldina

Publications

• Eppinger, Hans (1887): Pathogenesis, histogenesis and etiology of the aneurysms, including the aneurysm equi verminosum: Pathological-anatomical studies. Berlin: Hirschwald
• Eppinger, Hans (1894): The rag disease: a typical inhalation anthrax infection in humans with particular consideration of its pathological anatomy and pathogenesis. Jena: Fischer

literature

• Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. I, p. 314, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna, ISBN 3-486-49491-0
• Marlene Jantsch:  Eppinger, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 551 ( digitized version )., With literature
• Eppinger Hans sen. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 257 f. (Direct links on p. 257 , p. 258 )., With literature
• Hansjörg Brockmann, Rudolf Simm, Jürgen Wokoek: The Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prague in Munich commemorates their deceased, fallen and murdered brothers. Copyright 2014, there in short biographies of important Caroliner p. 138, Eppinger senior, Hans

Web links

• Entry on Hans Eppinger senior in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )