Heinrich Werner (tropical medicine)

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Heinrich Werner (born May 14, 1874 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † 1946 ) was a German tropical medic and medical officer in the protection force and in the German army , most recently in the rank of colonel general .

Career

Werner studied medicine from 1893 to 1899 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin .

From 1900 to 1902 he was an assistant doctor , later a senior physician in the Schutztruppe for German East Africa , where he was able to prove the relapsing fever in 1902 .

From 1904 to 1906 he came to German South West Africa , where he took part in the campaign to suppress the Herero uprising as a senior physician or staff physician in the protection force .

From 1906 to 1913 Werner was assigned to the Reich Colonial Office and worked as an external assistant or department head at the clinical department of the Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg . There, in 1909, in a case from German South West Africa, he first demonstrated the Malta fever .

In February 1914 he was Surgeon of the protection force and Medizinalreferent the Government of Cameroon . In this position he took after the outbreak of the First World War at the battles in New Cameroon part. When the military situation in Cameroon became hopeless, the German protection force transferred to the neutral Spanish colony of Rio Muni and was initially interned there . The Europeans were later transferred to Spain. As a doctor, Werner was later given the opportunity to continue traveling to the Netherlands . From there he came back to Germany and rejoined the German medical forces . He then served as a corps doctor and hygienist on various fronts of the First World War, including in Belgium , on the Eastern Front and in Romania .

Special recognition Get Werner by his description of the shooter grave fever - a well from person to person by the clothes - (Pediculus humanus corporis) and head lice transmitted disease during the trench warfare broke out on several fronts. After him and the Swiss internist Wilhelm His , who also researched the disease, the disease is also named "Werner-His Disease" (English "Werner-His Disease").

After the war Werner retired as Colonel General , but continued to practice as a specialist in infectious diseases in Berlin.

During his career Werner published a large number of writings, mainly on infectious and parasitic diseases, but also on protozoological , anthropological , ethnological and linguistic topics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Anthropological observations on the Kung and Heikumbusch people and their language , Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 1906.
  • The kidneys in blackwater fever with special consideration of the therapy of anuria , supplement to the archive for ship and tropical hygiene, 1908.
  • Studies of Pathogenic Amoeba , 1908.
  • The Ehrlich-Hata-Agent 606 for malaria , German Medical Weekly , 1910.
  • Enteramoeba coli. Handbook of Pathogenic Protozoa, Volume 1; Leipzig, 1912.
  • About a particular illness, which he describes as five-day fiber , Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift , 1916.
  • Recent Problems in Malaria Research , 1919.
  • Febris quintana , Berlin and Vienna, 1920.
  • Malaria , in Friedrich Kraus (1858–1936) and Theodor Brugsch (1878–1963): Specific Pathology and Therapy , Volumes 2 & 3, Urban & Schwarzenberg , Berlin, 1919–1929.
  • Five-day fever; Handbook of pathogenic microorganisms , 3rd edition, volume 8, Jena, Berlin and Vienna, 1930;
  • A tropical doctor saw Africa , published as an estate with a foreword by Ernst Georg Nauck , Strasbourg / Kehl, around 1950.

In addition, Werner published a larger number tropics individual medical treatments of malaria therapy , Pestbekämpfung , leprosy , relapsing fever, Malta fever, oriental sore , Elephantiasisoperationen u. a.

literature

  • Werner, Heinrich. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 702 f. ( [1] ).
  • Isidor Fischer, (editor): Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna, 1932.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Maurin, D. Raoult: Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana infections. Found in: Clin Microbiol Rev. 3 (1996), pp. 273-292, PMID 8809460 .
  2. ^ ME Ohl, DH Spach: Bartonella quintana and urban trench fever. Found in: Clin Infect Dis . 31 (2000), pp. 131-135, PMID 10913410 .
  3. ^ Medicine Online : Keyword: Werner – His disease.
  4. ^ Short biography of Wilhelm His (in English). In: A dictionary of medical eponyms. Retrieved January 25, 2016 . on the English web page Who Named It .
  5. ↑ Brief description of the "Werner His Disease" (in English). In: A dictionary of medical eponyms. Retrieved January 25, 2016 . on the English web page Who Named It .
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine specialist and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 1946