Johannes Dobberstein

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Grave of Johannes Dobberstein in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin.

Johannes Dobberstein (born September 19, 1895 in Graudenz ; † January 9, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German veterinary pathologist . He was a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin and one of the leading trainers for veterinarians in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The national prize winner of the GDR is the author of various standard works on veterinary medicine, which were also published in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Dobberstein, son of a postal worker, began studying at the Veterinary University in Berlin after graduating from high school in Insterburg in 1914 . In the same year he was drafted and fought in the First World War . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Königsberg . After graduation, he became the 1922 approval as a veterinarian and was with a thesis on the mastoid pig doctorate .

From 1923 to 1928 he worked as an assistant and later as a senior assistant at the Pathological Institute in Berlin. In 1926 he received a teaching post and in 1927 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on diseases of the central nervous system in horses . In 1928 he became a professor with a chair for pathological anatomy at the Veterinary University in Berlin and at the same time a member of the state veterinary office . In 1939 he was appointed a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

When the Second World War broke out , Dobberstein was drafted again and served as a senior veterinarian in the German Wehrmacht . After the war ended, he settled in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and returned to the newly opened Humboldt University (HU) Berlin.

In 1949 Dobberstein became professor with a chair for general veterinary pathology and pathological anatomy, director of the institute for veterinary pathology and was at times also director of the institute for veterinary anatomy. Later he was long-time dean of the veterinary medicine faculty at HU. Since 1949 Dobberstein was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and was involved in the establishment of the Institute for Comparative Pathology and from 1952 its director.

In 1951 Dobberstein turned down an appointment at the West German University of Munich . In the same year he became a founding member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences (DAL), where he was secretary of the veterinary medicine section from 1951 to 1957 and vice-president from 1957 to his retirement in 1962.

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Dobberstein was the editor and author of several standard textbooks in veterinary medicine, in particular the seven-volume "Handbook of the special pathological anatomy of domestic animals" founded by Ernst Joest , and was published both in the GDR and in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1946 he was the founder and editor of the “monthly magazine for veterinary medicine” and numerous publications on the comparative pathology of domestic animals.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Section technology and diagnostics for veterinarians. Berlin 1950.
  • Guidelines for the Section of Pets. Berlin 1957.
  • Handbook of the special pathological anatomy of domestic animals. Berlin, Hamburg 1969–1971

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine , Nora Verlag, Berlin 2008. (Vol. 1, p. 144)
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 44.
  3. ^ Academy of Sciences in Berlin : Commemorative publication for the 70th birthday of Johannes Dobberstein. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1966.
personal data
SURNAME Dobberstein, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinary pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1965
Place of death Berlin