Josef Tomcsik

Josef Tomcsik-Duschnitz (also Jozsef ; born May 19, 1898 in Gyéres , Transylvania , Austria-Hungary , today Romania ; † December 30, 1964 in Basel ) was a Hungarian - Swiss bacteriologist .

Life

Tomcsik received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Budapest in 1922 and had a Rockefeller Fellowship from 1923 to 1925 , with which he was to the United States and Beijing. He was head of the bacteriological, serological and diagnostic department of the Union Medical College supported by the Rockefeller Foundation for one year in Beijing . From 1927 he headed the serological department of the State Hygiene Institute in Budapest . From 1931 he was a private lecturer in Budapest, from 1932 full professor for hygiene and bacteriology in Szeged and from 1936 chief director of the State Hygiene Institute in Budapest. In 1943 he became a university professor and director of the Institute for Hygiene and Bacteriology at the University of Basel . He left his fortune to a foundation (Josef and Olga Tomcsik Foundation) that supports students in Basel.

Tomcsik researched the structure of antigens on the surface of bacterial cells.

In 1960 he received the Robert Koch Prize . He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1961 .

He edited a selection of the works of Louis Pasteur .

Tomcsik had been married to Olga Duschnitz, a long-time employee, since 1936. Since 1956 he was a Swiss citizen ( citizen of Basel).

Web links

• Hubert Steinke : Tomcsik, Josef. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Josef Tomcsik's estate in the Basel University Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Who's who in Switzerland including the principality of Liechtenstein. 1955, p. 418.
2. ↑ Kürschner's Scholar's Calendar.
3. ↑ Member entry of Josef Tomcsik (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
4. ^ Pasteur and the Generatio Spontanea. From the works of Pasteur , Hans Huber 1964