Heinrich Gins
Heinrich Alexander Gins (born July 21, 1883 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 4, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German bacteriologist and virologist .
Life
Gins studied at the universities of Munich and Würzburg and received his doctorate in Munich in 1908. During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Munich fraternity in 1902 . From 1909 to 1913 he was an assistant at the municipal hygienic institute in Frankfurt / Main. In 1913 he came to the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. There he took over the management of the smallpox department after his habilitation in 1917 . From 1919 he was also head of the state vaccination center in Berlin.
Gins joined the NSDAP in 1937 and was also a member of the SA . During the Second World War he was used as a senior field doctor.
In 1948 he took on a teaching position at the Free University of Berlin . In 1955 he took over the chairmanship of the Berlin Microbiological Society . Dentists saw him as a pioneer in the field of bacteriology of the oral cavity and teeth, where he dealt with the important group of anaerobes. His textbook "Introduction to Bacteriology for Dentists and Dentistry Students", written in 1933, was published in its second edition in 1949 and was translated into Japanese in 1954.
A scientific focus of his work was the foot and mouth disease . He introduced the ink process for capsule bacteria.
Honors
- 1940: Member of the Leopoldina
- 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- German Biographical Encyclopedia - Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 280.
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 185
- ↑ http://bmg-ev.de/chronik.pdf
- ^ J. Fortner: Personalia. Prof. Dr. med. HA GINS on her 75th birthday on July 21, 1958. Zahnärztl. Rundschau 67 (1958) 335
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gins, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gins, Heinrich Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 1968 |
| Place of death | Berlin |