Hugo Carl Plaut

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Hugo Carl Plaut (born October 12, 1858 in Leipzig , † February 17, 1928 in Hamburg ) was a Saxon , German doctor of the Jewish faith who worked primarily as a bacteriologist and mycologist .

Life

Plaut was born in Leipzig as the son of the banker Gustav Plaut and his wife Bertha, née Oppenheimer . He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . He then studied veterinary medicine and medicine at the University of Leipzig and the University of Kiel . He was awarded the dissertation Organized contagion of sheep pox and the mitigation of the same after Toussaint's style doctorate . From 1889 he worked as a general practitioner in Leipzig. In 1896 he described a special form of tonsillitis, which is now known as Angina Plaut-Vincent . He also worked on research on Streptococcus mucosus , Streptothrix and Actinomyces, as well as in the field of veterinary medicine. Until 1897 he was an assistant and private lecturer in Leipzig. He moved to Hamburg in 1913 and became director of the Institute for Mushroom Research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 1918 he became an associate professor for bacteriology at the University of Hamburg .

The Hugo Carl Plaut Medal is awarded to botanists, doctors and scientists in his honor .

family

Plaut was married to Adele geb. Broke. Her daughters Carla (1892–1976) and Rahel (1894–1993) also became doctors, the latter was married to the historian Hans Liebeschütz . Hubert Curt Plaut became a mathematician.

Works (selection)

  • Hyphae mushrooms (1903)
  • Eumycetes (1913)
  • Dermatomycoses (1909)
  • Mycoses (1919)

literature

  • Rahel Liebeschuetz: Hugo Carl Plaut . Typescript 1975. ( Online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.juden-in-sachsen.de/leipzig/BankhausHCPlaut.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.juden-in-sachsen.de  
  2. ^ Sprinz, Carla (Carrie) (née Plaut). Documentation Doctors in the Empire ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut. Documentation Doctors in the Empire ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Plaut, Carl Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plaut, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1928
Place of death Hamburg