Johannes Zeissler

Johannes Karl Zeissler (born May 19, 1883 in Wechselburg ; † November 10, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German professor of medicine and bacteriologist.

Life

Johannes Zeissler was a son of pastor Karl August Hermann Zeissler (born April 28, 1851 in Böhlen ; † 1942 in Leipzig ) and his wife Hanna Magdalena, née Burckhardt (born August 16, 1958 in Königstein im Taunus ; † in Leipzig). He attended an elementary school in Steinigtwolmsdorf and high schools in Bautzen and Dresden . From 1902 to 1907 he completed a medical degree at the University of Leipzig . After the state examination in 1908 at Leipzig University, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

From 1908 to 1910 Zeissler worked as an assistant to Hans Much , Hermann Lenhartz and, in particular, to Eugen Fraenkel and Hugo Schottmüller at the Eppendorf Hospital . In 1911 he moved to the Institute for Hygiene and Experimental Therapy at the University of Marburg as one of Emil von Behring's last assistants . From 1913 until his retirement in 1949 he headed the bacteriological institute of the Altona hospital .

Zeissler was married to Marie Adelheid Schmidt (* July 11, 1887, † February 21, 1958 in Königstein im Taunus ). His wife was a daughter of Ernst Albert Schmidt , professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Marburg, and his wife Johanna Dorothea Berta Maria, née Benzler. The couple had a son and a daughter.

Working as a bacteriologist

Zeissler's work was shaped by his time as Emil von Behring's assistant. After moving to Altona, he did extensive research and published a lot in the field of bacteriological diagnostics. He was particularly interested in the diagnosis of wound infections and researched this directly after the outbreak of the First World War . One focus of this work was the frequent gas fire infections.

Zeissler created a system for diagnosing the complicated bacteriology of anaerobes. This made it possible to isolate the many clostridia , to differentiate them culturally and to evaluate animal experiments. Later he dealt with anaerobes, which occur in animals with gas burns such as smoke burn, Para burn and Bradsot infections. Bacteriological institutes all over the world adopted the methods created by Zeissler. They developed into the basis of modern disease control and prevention in human and veterinary medicine.

Honors

• In 1937 Zeissler received the Aronson Prize and the title of professor
• In 1948 the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover appointed him Dr. med. vet. hc
• On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1958, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg

literature

• Dietrich Korth: Zeissler, Johannes . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 288–289