Hermann Griesbach

Herrmann Adolf Griesbach, 1914

The (outwardly changed) birth house of Hermann Adolf Griesbach in Bad Schwartau (on Lübecker Straße)

Hermann Adolf Griesbach (born April 9, 1854 in Schwartau ; † June 23, 1941 ibid) was a German scientist a. a. in the fields of medicine and zoology .

In addition to his histological studies, he has significantly shaped these subjects through his work and initiatives in the areas of school health care ( school hygiene ) and occupational health and safety ( industrial hygiene ).

Life

Hermann Adolf Griesbach was the youngest child of the pharmacist Georg Christoph Alexander Griesbach (1811–1899), who had lived in Schwartau since 1839, and his wife Emilie Auguste Wilhelmine Griesbach (née Böhme) (1811–1899). He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he graduated from high school in 1873 .

Education

In 1874 he began studying natural sciences - in particular biology , chemistry and medicine (including physiology , medicinal chemistry and hygiene ) in Marburg and in the same year he moved to the University of Leipzig - later he also studied (at least briefly) in Berlin , Göttingen and Heidelberg .

His studies ended Hermann Griesbach beginning in 1877 with a doctorate "On the construction of the Bojanus'schen organ of the mussel " to Dr. Phil. In zoology, chemistry and botany.

Teaching qualification, 2nd doctorate and habilitation

After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in Thorn , and from 1881 at the grammar school in Weißenburg in Alsace .

From the beginning of 1883 he worked at the University of Basel as a private lecturer in zoology, from 1885 as a lecturer in histology. There he published his histological work in 1883, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Anatomy of the Cestodes - for which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Heidelberg University in 1885 .

In 1883 , Hermann Griesbach qualified as a professor at the University of Basel with his work on the vascular system and water absorption in the naiads and mytilids .

After his habilitation, he worked at the technically oriented secondary school in Mulhouse as a professor of chemistry, biology and hygiene.

In 1893 Hermann Griesbach was appointed professor.

Activity in Basel

During his activity in Basel, he published numerous papers in the field of school health care ( school hygiene ) as well as occupational health and safety ( industrial hygiene ). In 1900 he founded the General German Association for School Health Care. This was followed by the establishment of two magazines.

Activity in Giessen

In 1919 Hermann Griesbach was given a teaching position as a private lecturer for hygiene at the University of Giessen - in 1921 he became a full honorary professor there and was given a teaching position for "industrial hygiene".

Retirement and return to Bad Schwartau

In 1932 - at the age of 78 - Hermann Griesbach ended his activity in Gießen and moved back to Bad Schwartau with his wife.

Others

Hermann Griesbach was Amalie Griesbach born in 1895. von Heimburg married and had a daughter Erika Ernestine Emilie (1896–1986) and a son Rolf Fritz Franz Emil (1899–1985).

Publications (selection)

• About the construction of the Bojanus organ of the pond mussel (doctoral thesis); Bonn 1876
• Contributions to the knowledge of the anatomy of the cestodes (doctoral thesis); in: Archives for Microscopic Anatomy (Volume 22, Pages 525-584); Bonn 1883
• About the vascular system and water absorption in the naiads and mytilids (habilitation thesis); in: Journal for Scientific Zoology (Volume 38, Pages 1–44); Leipzig and Vienna 1883
• About Relationships Between Mental Fatigue and Skin Sensitivity - in: Archives for Hygiene (Volume 24); Munich & Berlin 1894
• On the history of organized poisons (scientific supplement to the vocational school's program for the school year 1883–1884); Mulhouse 1884
• About the plasma structures of the blood cells in the circulating blood of amphibians ; in: Festschrift for the seventieth birthday of Rudolf Leuckart (also as a single publication); Leipzig 1892
• Energetics and hygiene of the nervous system; Munich & Leipzig 1895
• Physico-chemical propaedeutics with special consideration of the medical sciences and with historical and biographical information; First volume: Leipzig 1900 - Second volume: Leipzig 1915
• A new aesthesiometer; in: Pflügers Archive, Bonn (Volume 68); Bonn 1897
• Comparative studies on the sensory acuity of blind and sighted people; Bonn 1899
• Hygienic school reform; Hamburg & Leipzig 1899
• Considerations about the legal reports in relation to the admission of secondary school high school graduates to study law ; Berlin 1900.
• Further research into relationships between mental fatigue and skin sensitivity; in: International Archives for School Hygiene, 1/3; Leipzig 1905
• Atherosclerosis and hypertension (taking into account their relationship to industrial hygiene and how to combat it through organotherapeutic means); Giessen 1923
• Medical dictionary and reference book (A guide for students and doctors, and all medical-related professions); Giessen 1927
• Personal hygiene and school hygiene (guidelines and lectures at teacher training colleges); Giessen 1930

literature

• Sibylle Kolitsch: Hermann Adolf Griesbach (1854–1941), hygiene representative in Giessen from 1919–1932 . Dissertation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Giessen 2004 ( full text )
• Griesbach, Hermann Adolf , in: Julius Pagel : Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Col. 631 f.
• Hans Ulrich Schulz:  Griesbach, Hermann Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 60 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Max Steen : The house properties and their inhabitants in the old Schwartau (1644-1900) . Bad Schwartau 1971, p. 90
• Appreciation of Hermann Griesbach on the occasion of the completion of the 70th year of life (category daily history ), in: Klinische Wochenschrift , 4th year 1925, number 16, p. 792
• Hygienic and biological treatises with special consideration of the physicochemical, serological and bacteriological border areas. Hermann Griesbach on his seventieth birthday on April 9, 1925 . Giessen 1925 (Festschrift)