Hans Reichenbach (hygienist)

Hans Reichenbach (born November 30, 1864 in Lüneburg , † January 18, 1937 ) was a German hygienist .

Life

Hans Reichenbach's father was a manufacturer. Hans attended a grammar school in Lüneburg. In 1884 he enrolled in medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . During his studies in 1886 he became a member of the Frisia Göttingen fraternity . After the state examination in March 1889, he did his doctorate in July with Wilhelm Ebstein on messages from the syphilitic department of the Ernst August Hospital . He examined anamnesis data of syphilis patients from the Ernst August Hospital in Göttingen and the therapy schemes used. In 1890 he attended the hygiene institutes in Munich, Marburg and Berlin. From 1891 to 1904 he worked as an assistant in Göttingen. In 1898 he completed his habilitation there in the field of bacteriology and hygiene. From January 1899 ( Gustav Wolffhügel's death ) to October 1899 (taken over by Erwin von Esmarch ) he was interim director of the Göttingen Hygiene Institute. In 1903 he was awarded the title of professor. Until 1909 he worked in Breslau as head of department under Carl Flügge , then as an associate professor in Bonn. In 1911 Reichenbach became a full professor in Göttingen. From 1918 to 1919 he was also rector of Göttingen University. He retired in 1933, and at the end of September 1934 he ended the institute's management. He continued to work at the institute until his death.

literature

• Constantin Benjamin Vogiatzis: Hans Reichenbach (1864–1937), hygienist and scientist. Göttingen 2010 (medical dissertation, University of Göttingen, 2010).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 408.