Julius Richard Petri

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Julius Richard Petri, around 1888

Julius Richard Petri (born May 31, 1852 in Barmen , today part of Wuppertal ; † December 20, 1921 in Zeitz ) was a German bacteriologist . Petri invented the Petri dish named after him in 1887 while working with Robert Koch .

Life

Petri studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin from 1871 to 1875 and worked for a short time as a military doctor. In Görbersdorf he worked from 1882 to 1885 as an assistant to Hermann Brehmer at his sanatorium for lung patients before he went to Robert Koch's bacteriological institute in 1886 . Also in 1886 Petri was appointed curator at the Hygiene Museum of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. In 1887 Petri presented the Petri dish, which was later named after him, to the research world. In addition to the Petri dish, he also improved numerous working methods and equipment for medical use, including a sand filter and shipping containers for stool and urine samples. In 1889 Petri became a councilor at the Imperial Health Department and head of a bacteriological laboratory. In 1900 he went into early retirement with the title of a secret government councilor and took over the management of the Brehmerschen Heilanstalt in Görbersdorf for three years .

Petri was a Freemason and from 1880 to 1892 a member of the Lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix in Königsberg .

Works

  • Experiments on the chemistry of albumen urine. 1876.
  • Apparatus for determining the water content in milk by vacuum distillation. 1880.
  • A small modification of the Koch plate method. 1887
  • About the methods of modern bacterial research, 1887 (In: Collection of common scientific lectures ).
  • The danger of carbon-soda ovens. 1889.
  • Industrial hygiene. 1890.
  • Experiments on the spread of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis, through rail transport and the measures to be taken against them. 1893.
  • The microscope. From its beginnings to the present perfection. 1896.
  • For assessing the high-pressure pasteurizer apparatus, for detection in butter and milk. 1897.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Voswinckel: Petri, 1) Julius Richard. Entry in New German Biography . Volume 20. Hans Günter Hockerts (ed.), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, pp. 263-264 (digitized at www.digitale-sammlungen.de). Retrieved July 6, 2020
  2. ↑ Petri, Richard Julius. Entry in the biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . J. Pagel (Ed.), Berlin, Vienna 1901 (text and digitized version at Zeno.org ).
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Medical History . Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil a . a. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 988.
  4. ↑ RJ Petri: A small modification of the Koch plate method . In: Centralblatt für Bacteriologie und Parasitenkunde . Volume 1, 1887, pp. 279-280.
  5. ↑ Otto Hieber : History of the United Johannis Lodge to Todtenkopf and Phoenix zu Königsberg i. Pr. Self-published by the author, Königsberg 1897.
  6. ↑ JR Petri: The microscope. 1896, digitized version , download (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Julius Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1921
Place of death Time