Johannes Richter (veterinarian)

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Johannes Max Hugo Richter (born March 10, 1878 in Dresden , † August 3, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German veterinarian and university professor . He became internationally known for his standard textbook on animal birth aid, which was reissued in 2008 .

Life

He grew up as the son of the businessman Arthur Richter and his wife Camilla Johanna, b. Pöhlmann, in Dresden. He received piano lessons from the age of 10 and proved to be so gifted and eager that a piano was transported especially for him to his family's summer house in Loschwitz . However, his father contradicted his wish to study music by referring to "breadless art". After graduating from high school, Johannes therefore first studied science for a semester at the University of Geneva .

Back in Dresden, he completed a degree in veterinary medicine at the veterinary university there . During his studies he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Alemannia Dresden in 1896/97 and an honorary member of the Landsmannschaft Misnia Dresden in 1920 . He was licensed as a veterinarian in 1900. This was followed by doctorates at the universities of Erlangen in 1901 and Gießen in 1904 and habilitation in Dresden. In 1906 he became an associate professor and head of the Dresden outpatient veterinary clinic , and in 1912 he became a full professor and head of the Dresden Institute for Animal Breeding and Obstetrics. During the First World War he served as the head of a horse hospital in Liege , Belgium .

In 1923 he moved to Leipzig with his wife and two children, because in the same year the Dresden University of Veterinary Medicine was relocated to Leipzig and attached to the university there . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

His narrower field of work was birth and elevator damage in animal breeding. In this area he was also active in fur farming, especially in the silver fox breeding . In earlier years he undertook licensing trips to silver fox farms and acted as a judge at fur animal exhibitions . During the International Fur Exhibition (IPA) , he led the specialist course for fur breeders, and he was also a member of the expert committee for fur breeding. He was a member of the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle, the Society for Natural Science and Medicine in Dresden and an honorary member of the Swedish and Finnish veterinarians.

In the 1930s, health problems made several spa stays necessary. In addition, there was depression, which worsened during the Second World War . On August 3, 1943, at the age of 65, he shot himself in his office at the institute.

Honors

In 1926 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Writings and works

  • Harms' textbook on veterinary obstetrics . with Johannes Schmidt and Richard Reinhard, 4th edition, Schoetz, Berlin 1912.
  • From the Liège horse hospital. Observations during the years 1915/16 . Schoetz, Berlin 1918.
  • The sterility of the billy goats . Schoetz, Berlin 1919.
  • Pusch's blackboards for assessing the horse . Schoetz, Berlin 1921.
  • The profession of the veterinarian. Career guidance lecture . Schoetz, Berlin 1021.
  • Causes and treatment of infertility in cattle . Schoetz, Berlin 1922.
  • Blackboards for obstetric lessons with horses . Schaper, Hanover 1925.
  • Guide to studying veterinary medicine. Leipziger Hochschulhefte 1925.
  • The sterility of the cattle . 3. Edition. Schoetz, Berlin 1926.
  • Twin and multiple births in our farm mammals . Work d. German Society f. Zuchtungsk. H. 29. Schaper, Hanover 1926.
  • The study of veterinary medicine at the University of Leipzig . Lorentz, Leipzig 1935.
  • The pregnancy diagnosis in cattle . 3. Edition. Schoetz, Berlin 1937.
  • Animal obstetrics textbook . Together with Richard Goetze, Schoetz, Berlin 1950, 4th edition 2008.

literature

  • Franka Wolter: Johannes Richter (1878–1943), Life and Work of a Protagonist of Veterinary Obstetrics (Dissertation), Leipzig 2011.

References and comments

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 12.
  2. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 316.
  3. ↑ Without mentioning the author: Professor Johannes Richter † . In: Der Rauchwarenmarkt , No. 31/32, Leipzig, August 13, 1943, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Member entry by Johannes Richter at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on November 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Johannes Max Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1943
Place of death Leipzig