Hans Vogel (parasitologist)

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Hans Vogel (born January 20, 1900 in Dresden ; † April 5, 1980 ) was a German tropical medicine specialist and parasitologist. He spent most of his scientific career at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, of which he was director from 1963 to 1968.

career

In the mid-1920s, Hans Vogel came to the Bernhard Nocht Institute, where he worked alone on questions of the development cycle and together with his colleague Waldemar Minning on immunology, diagnostics and therapy. In 1933 he became head of department.

In 1931 Hans Vogel discovered the complicated development cycle of the cat liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus , a pathogen causing liver diseases in humans and animals, which attacks snails and fish as intermediate hosts and cats or humans as final hosts. His discovery and subsequent work were essential prerequisites for the later development of control measures, including against schistosomiasis .

In 1934, during a research stay in China, Hans Vogel succeeded in identifying crabs of the genus Potamon as intermediate hosts of the lung fluke Paragonimus westermani . During his stay in China, he also observed that schistosomiasis in the endemic areas is more severe in adolescents than in older patients. His assumption was that the elderly patients had acquired immunity. The research lasted almost 20 years and was made more difficult by the fact that the pathogen, the pair leech , goes through a development cycle with two host changes. Nocht managed to collect snails of the species Oncomelania hupensis in the Chinese province of Zhejiang in 1937 and to breed these intermediate hosts continuously in Hamburg. In this way, the life cycle of the schistosomes in the laboratory could be maintained for decades. In 1950 Vogel was able to prove after 12 years of work that rhesus monkeys can be immunized against an infestation with Schistosoma japonicum .

In his further career he researched and described the life cycle and etiology of the fox tapeworm ( Echinococcus multilocularis ), the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis, in the 1950s . Inspired by the findings of his American research colleagues Robert L. Rausch and Everett L. Schiller , who established a connection on islands in Alaska between the increased occurrence of the fox tapeworm and diseases of Eskimos from alveolar echinococcosis, he carried out research in southern Germany from 1954 to 1957. He found adult fox tapeworms in foxes and accumulated alveolar cysts in voles. Through feeding experiments he was able to demonstrate the development cycle of the parasite and prove that alveolar echinococcosis in humans is caused by a different pathogen than cystic echinococcosis . For nearly a century in parasitology, the view that both diseases are caused by the tripartite dog tapeworm has been refuted.

In 1961 Vogel undertook an exploratory trip to Cameroon and Sudan with the director of the Bernhard Nocht Institute, Ernst Georg Nauck , and his colleague Hans-Harald Schumacher, to find a location for the research station planned by the Bernhard Nocht Institute in the tropics to find.

After Nauck had retired, Hans Vogel became director of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg in 1963 and took over the associated chair. The planning and construction of the research station in Bong Town , Liberia, which opened in January 1968, fell during his tenure . In addition, the reconstruction of the institute's clinical wing, which was destroyed in World War II, was completed in 1968. In the same year Vogel handed over his office to his successor Hans-Harald Schumacher . The establishment of the Biochemistry Department, which opened in 1971, was initiated by Vogel.

Hans Vogel was awarded the Mary Kingsley Medal from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1973 . The tapeworm Echinococcus vogeli , a pathogen causing polycystic echinococcosis endemic in South America , was named after him. He received the Bernhard Nocht Medal .

Fonts

  • Hans Vogel: The development cycle of Opisthorchis felineus (Riv.) Together with comments on systematics and epidemiology . In: Zoologica , Volume 33, 1934, pp. 1-103, ISSN  0044-5088 .
  • Hans Vogel: China without a mask. 20,000 km with the Swiss film expedition. With 120 photographs on 80 art boards . Albert Müller, Zurich, Leipzig 1937, 178 pp.
  • Hans Vogel, Waldemar Minning: About the acquired resistance of Macacus rhesus to Schistosoma japonicum . In: Journal of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology , Volume 4, 1953, pp. 418-505, ISSN  0044-359X .
  • Hans Vogel: About the development cycle and the species belonging to the European Alveolarechinococcus . In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift , Volume 80, 1955, pp. 931-932, ISSN  0012-0472 .
  • Hans Vogel: About the Echinococcus multilocularis of southern Germany I. The tapeworm stage of strains of human and animal origin (Echinococcus multilocularis in South Germany. I. The tapeworm stage of strains from humans and animals). In: Zeitschrift für Tropicalmedizin und Parasitologie , Volume 8, 1957, pp. 404-454, ISSN  0044-359X .

literature

  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 1368.
  • The German University Newspaper unites with Hochschul-Dienst, Volume 36, Verlag Dr. Josef Raabe, Bonn, 1980, p. 287.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Erich Mannweiler: Scientific work from 100 years of Hamburg tropical medicine . In: without author: special volume on the 1999/2000 annual report, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg 2000, pp. 33–38, PMID 1777002 , online PDF 104 kB, accessed on January 7, 2014.
  2. ^ John W. Ridley: Parasitology for Medical and Clinical Laboratory Professionals . Delmar, Clifton Park, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4354-4816-2 , p. 187
  3. ^ Frank EG Cox: History of Human Parasitology . In: Clinical Microbiology Reviews , Volume 15, Issue 4, 2002, pp. 595-612, here p. 601, doi : 10.1128 / CMR.15.4.595-612.2002
  4. ^ Bernhard Fleischer: A century of research in tropical medicine in Hamburg: the early history and present state of the Bernhard Nocht Institute . In: Tropical Medicine and International Health , Volume 5, No. 10, 2000, pp. 747-751, doi : 10.1046 / j.1365-3156.2000.00634.x
  5. ↑ without author: Bernhard Nocht Institute Hamburg. 1900 - 2000. An exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tropical Institute . Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg 2000, Chapter 6, Online PDF 690 kB, accessed on January 7, 2014
  6. ↑ Dominique Angèle Vuitton et al .: A historical view of alveolar echinococcosis, 160 years after the discovery of the first case in humans: part 1. What have we learned on the distribution of the disease and on its parasitic agent? In: Chinese Medical Journal , Volume 124, No. 18, 2011, pp. 2943-2953, PMID 22040507
  7. ↑ without author: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Annual report 1999/2000 . Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg 2000, pp. 18–19, ISSN  1616-4504 , Online PDF 1.7 MB, accessed on January 7, 2014
  8. ↑ without author: Bernhard Nocht Institute Hamburg. 1900 - 2000. An exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tropical Institute . Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg 2000, Chapter 1, Online PDF 715 kB, accessed on January 7, 2014
  9. ^ Dennis Tappe, August Stich, Matthias Frosch: Emergence of Polycystic Neotropical Echinococcosis . In: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 14, No. 2, 2008, pp. 292-297, doi : 10.3201 / eid1402.070742
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine specialist and parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1980