Karl Kisskalt

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Karl Kisskalt (born December 30, 1875 in Würzburg , † March 2, 1962 in Munich ) was a German physician, hygienist and university professor.

Life

Karl Kißkalt studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg . After completing his studies, he was assistant to Karl Bernhard Lehmann at the Hygiene Institute in Würzburg from 1899 to 1901 . Then he went to the Hessian Ludwig University to Georg Gaffky , where he qualified as a professor in 1903 . After Gaffky was appointed to the Robert Koch Institute in 1904, he worked for Hermann Kossel until 1906. He switched to Max Rubner at the Charité and stayed there with his successor Carl Flügge until he was appointed professor of hygiene at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1912 . In 1917 he accepted an appointment at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , in 1924 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and in 1925 at the University of Munich. In 1950 he retired . In Königsberg, Kiel and Munich he was dean of the medical faculty. In the academic year 1921/22 he was rector of the University of Kiel.

He belonged to the Society for Racial Hygiene and was u. a. Co-editor of the Münchner Medizinischen Wochenschrift . The Nazi Party , he joined the 1937th In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . He retired in 1950 .

In his work, Kißkalt dealt with bacteriology as well as environmental and social hygiene. From 1929 he was editor of the archive for hygiene and bacteriology founded by Max von Pettenkofer .

His brother was the general director of Munich Re Wilhelm Kißkalt .

Awards

  • Appointment to the secret medical council
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary member of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
  • Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
  • Honorary member of the Medical Association of Munich
  • 1955: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
  • Honorary Senator of the University of Kiel

Fonts

  • Practical course in bacteriology and protozoology , 1907
  • Well hygiene , 1916
  • Introduction to Medical Statistics , 1919
  • The nutritional value of major human foods , 1939
  • Theory and Practice of Medical Research , 1942
  • Max von Pettenkofer , 1948

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 137 , 478
  2. Rector's speeches (HKM)
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 475.