Joachim Borneff

Joachim Otto Borneff (born October 2, 1920 in Coburg , † March 19, 2001 in Mainz ) was a German hygienist .

Life

His parents were the Sparkasse manager Hugo Borneff and Frieda Borneff, née Berndsen. From 1927 to 1931 he attended elementary school, from 1931 to 1939 the secondary school in Coburg. In the winter semester of 1939/1940 he began studying medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , which he had to interrupt again in 1940 for labor and military service. From the winter semester 1942/1943 to the winter semester 1944/1945 he continued it at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and in the winter semester 1945/1946 again in Erlangen. On July 6, 1946, he obtained the medical state examination .

On January 10, 1947 he was promoted to dr. med. PhD ; his dissertation was entitled "Investigations and considerations on the clinical picture of pernicious anemia based on the cases of the Würzburg clinic". From February 1, 1947, he worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute in Erlangen; on July 16, 1948, he moved to the Royal Bavarian Bacteriological Research Institute there. In 1949 he returned to the university and from March 1st received a position as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Medical Hygiene, where he worked until 1961. On January 26, 1956 , he completed his habilitation with a thesis entitled “About the biological effectiveness of optical radiation with special consideration of fluorescent tube light” for the subjects of hygiene and bacteriology and on April 25, he received a position as a private lecturer in Erlangen. He had been married to Margarete Sieges since 1946 and had two children with her.

On April 1, 1961, he succeeded Heinrich Kliewe as Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology and Director of the Hygiene Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and held this post until his retirement on March 31, 1989. In the year of office 1966–1967 served he as dean of the medical faculty. Borneff was president of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation and chairman of the working group for hygiene and cleanliness. In addition, he was a member of the Hydrogeology Section of the German Society for Geology and the German Association for the Gas and Water Industry .

Honors

• Dr. Ludwig Gerhard Prize of the Upper Franconian Foundation (1960)
• Hans Klenk Prize (1975 and 1988)
• Franz Rödler Prize (1979)
• Bunsen-Pettenkofer Honor Roll of the German Association for Gas and Water (1990)
• Rudolf Schülke Prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation (1990)
• Cross of Merit 1st Class from the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ("Federal Cross of Merit ") (1991)
• Hygiene Prize from the Rudolf Schülke Foundation (1993)

Publications

• Investigations and considerations on the clinical picture of pernicious anemia based on the cases of the Würzburg clinic. OO 1946.
• Investigations into the biological effectiveness of fluorescent tube radiation on humans. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1955.
• About the biological effectiveness of optical radiation with special consideration of fluorescent tube light. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1955.
• with Marianne Borneff: Hygiene. A guide for students and doctors. Thieme, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-13-467901-9 . 2nd edition, ibid. 1974, ISBN 3-13-467902-7 . 3rd edition, ibid. 1977, ISBN 3-13-467903-5 . 4th edition, ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-13-467904-3 . 5th edition, ibid. 1991, ISBN 3-13-467905-1 . Paperback edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1971.
  • Italian translation: Igiene. Una guida per studenti e medici. Translated by Mariano Cefalù. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milan 1975.
• as publisher: occupational medicine in lectures (= university paperbacks. Volume 44). Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1973, ISBN 3-7945-0249-3 .
• The pollution of ground and surface water by organic substances from the air aerosol (= series of publications of the Association of German Water Protection eV number 32). Association of German Water Protection, Bonn 1973.
• Hygiene in schools, sports facilities, kindergartens. Selection bibliography 1963–1974. Edited by the work and research group on hygiene and cleanliness. Thieme, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-13-547501-8 .
• as co-author: Guidelines for the testing and evaluation of chemical disinfection processes. Reprint, Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1981, ISBN 3-437-10716-X .
• as co-author: Guideline for the testing and evaluation of hand decontamination preparations. Reprint, Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1986, ISBN 3-437-11106-X .

literature

• Signe Seiler: In the fight against pathogens. The Mainz Hygiene Institute and the research of Prof. Dr. Joachim Borneff. In: Mainz. Quarterly books for culture, politics, economy and history , number 9, 1989, pp. 114–117.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996. Bio-bibliographical directory of German-speaking scientists of the present. 17th edition, volume medicine-natural sciences-technology. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, p. 135.
• Borneff, Joachim Otto. In: Renate Witten (ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 (= Erlanger researches. Special series. Volume 9). Part 2: Faculty of Medicine. Modifications made by Astrid Ley. University Library, Erlangen 1999, p. 17.

Web links

• Entry on Joachim Borneff in the "Directory of Professors at the University of Mainz 1946–1973"