Ludolph Fischer

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Ludolph Fischer (born April 27, 1900 in Hamburg , † December 29, 1972 in Tübingen ) was a German tropical medicine specialist and university professor .

Life

The Evangelical baptized, Hamburg-born Ludolph Fischer, son of the director Friedrich Fischer and his spouse Frida born Ellermann, turned to the High School to study medicine at the universities of Hamburg , Rostock , Würzburg and Munich to. In Würzburg he was involved in the youth movement-reformed connection Bergfried . In 1925 he acquired the academic degree of Dr. med. Fischer subsequently worked clinically at the Hamburg Tropical Institute before moving to the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1931 as a private lecturer in tropical medicine, and in 1942 he was promoted to associate professor . After subsequent military service in the Navy until 1945, he returned to Tübingen in 1946, in 1956 he was appointed full professor and in 1965 he retired . He was the holder of the Bernhard Nocht Medal .

Ludolph Fischer, one of the leading German tropical medicine specialists of his time, founded the Institute for Tropical Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1955 , which he was director until his retirement. In addition, Fischer was employed as a medical advisor in Kabul from 1938 to 1941 and 1950 to 1952 .

Ludolph Fischer married Hedwig nee Laudenbach in 1927. There were three children from this marriage. Ludolph Fischer died in a traffic accident at the end of 1972.

Publications

  • On the causes of the extinction of native malaria in Germany in the 2nd half of the 19th century , Rauhes Haus, Hamburg, 1925
  • The mucous membranes in vasoneurotic diathesis, Stuttgart, Enke, 1931
  • Afghanistan  : a geographic-medical culture, Springer, Berlin [a. a.], 1968

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 1, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, p. 543.
  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 293.
  • Journal for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Volume 24, Stuttgart, 1972, p. 1, 283.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt, March 15, 1973, p. 725 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ludolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1972
Place of death Tübingen