Johannes Fibiger

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Johannes Fibiger, 1928

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (born April 23, 1867 in Silkeborg in Jutland , Denmark , † January 30, 1928 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish pathologist and bacteriologist. Fibiger provided essential work on infectious diseases . For his discovery of spiroptera carcinoma , he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 1926, which was awarded in 1927.

Life

Johannes Fibiger's father, CEA Fibiger, was a family doctor and his mother, Elfride Muller, was a writer.

He studied medicine in Copenhagen from 1883 to 1890. After that he was an assistant doctor at various hospitals. From 1891 to 1893 he was a military doctor. Fibiger worked from 1894 to 1897 as a reserve doctor for the army at the Infectious Disease Hospital (Blegdam Hospital) in Copenhagen. After receiving his doctorate under CJ Solomonssen on the bacteriology of diphtheria at the University of Copenhagen in 1895, he headed a military laboratory for clinical bacteriology. He later turned to research into tuberculosis . In 1900 he became professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he served as rector in the academic year 1925/26.

In 1948 the Fibigerstrasse in Hamburg-Langenhorn was named after him, in 2009 the moon crater Fibiger .

research

Fibiger's assumption that with his investigations into spiroptera carcinoma he had generally identified cancer as an infectious disease later turned out to be a mistake.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into a nematode (Spiroptera sp. N.) And its ability to cause papillomatous and carcinomatous tumor formations in the stomach of the rat. In: Journal of Cancer Research . Vol. 13 (1913), pp. 217-280, and Vol. 14 (1914), pp. 295-326.
  • Investigations on Spiroptera carcinoma and the experimental induction of cancer . In: Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941 . Elsevier, Amsterdam 1965, p. 122–150 ( online Nobel Prize Lecture ).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Fibiger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928) ( Memento from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), fibiger.net (English).
  2. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Fibiger, Johannes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 395.
  3. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Fibiger, Johannes. 2005, p. 395.
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of the publishing house FA Brockhaus (ed.): Nobel Prizes: Chronicle of outstanding achievements . Mannheim 2001, ISBN 3-7653-0491-3 , pp. 262 .
  5. ↑ Fibigerstraße on langenhorn-archiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Fibiger, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Silkeborg , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1928
Place of death Copenhagen , Denmark