Hugo Hertwig (veterinarian)

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Hugo Hertwig (born January 22, 1841 in Berlin ; † September 24, 1895 there ) was a German veterinarian.

Life

Hugo Hertwig was born as the son of the professor at the Berlin Veterinary School Carl Heinrich Hertwig . There he studied veterinary medicine and in 1859 became a member of the Corps Franconia Berlin. In 1862 he received his license to practice medicine and became a district veterinarian . From October 1882 he was senior veterinarian and director of the city meat inspection in Berlin. In 1889/90 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Hertwig promoted a scientific foundation for veterinary meat hygiene. The meat inspection he organized at the Berlin slaughterhouse was internationally leading. He developed the Hertwig method, named after him, for the identification of Finnish cattle, in which the internal jaw muscles are cut. His son-in-law was the veterinarian Robert von Ostertag .

literature

  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859, March 15, 1959, 1959, p. 111.

Web links

  • Biograms, Hertwig, Hugo at www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de (website of the Free University of Berlin, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Fritz Brumme:  Ostertag, Robert von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 621 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Zeitschrift für Fleisch- und Milchhygiene, Volume 6, October 1896, Issue 1, p. 19 (obituary) ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Zeitschrift für Fleisch- und Milchhygiene, Volume 6, January 1896, Issue 4, p. 64 (R. Ostertag: About the recovery of the meat of finnish cattle , p. 63-69) ( digital copy )

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1883 he was awarded the ribbon of the Corps Normannia Hanover .
personal data
SURNAME Hertwig, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1895
Place of death Berlin