Henrique da Rocha Lima

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Henrique da Rocha Lima

Henrique da Rocha Lima (born November 24, 1879 in Rio de Janeiro , † April 26, 1956 ) was a Brazilian physician and pathologist.

Life

In 1901 Henrique da Rocha Lima received his doctorate in Rio de Janeiro .

Henrique da Rocha Lima worked from 1906 to 1909 in Munich at the chair for pathological anatomy (today attached to the Munich University Hospital ). From 1909 to 1927 he headed the department of pathology at the Tropical Institute ( Bernhard Nocht Institute ) in Hamburg. In 1916 he described the spotted fever pathogen discovered in 1910 by Howard Taylor Ricketts and in 1913 by Stanislaus von Prowazek , and named the pathogen Rickettsia prowazekii in honor of these two researchers .

After returning to Brazil, he worked in São Paulo. Here he was involved in founding the Paulista School of Medicine and the University of São Paulo .

In 1935 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

The bacterial species Bartonella rochalimae was named after him in 2012.

Fonts (selection)

  • Virus research methods . Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house, Berlin 1939.

literature

  • Otto Bier: Henrique da Rocha Lima. Descobridor das rickéttsias e da etiologia do tifo exantemático . In: Ciência e cultura , Vol. 31 (1979), Issue 10, 1103-1106, ISSN  0009-6725 .
  • Edgard Cerqueira Falção: Henrique da Rocha Lima ea descoberta da "Rickettsia prowazeki" . In: Humboldt , Vol. 6 (1966), Issue 13, pp. 69-72.
  • Rudolf Peschke: Prof. Henrique da Rocha Lima . In: South America. Drei -montschrift , Vol. 7 (1956), Issue 1, pp. 54-55.
  • Werner Sackmann: Typhus and typhus research at the time of the First World War. In memory of Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956) . In: Gesnerus . Vol. 37 (1980), No. 1/2, pp. 113-132, ISSN  0016-9161 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Brecht: Typhus research in World War I in the mirror of the Germans and the Munich medical weekly , Diss. Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Supervisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , 2008, pp. 6–15, pp. 91 + 92.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Henrique da Rocha Lima at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rocha Lima, Henrique there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian medic and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1956