Ludwig Brieger

Ludwig Brieger (No. 5) with his assistants and collaborators, 1909. Photo by R. Siegert.

Ludwig Brieger (born July 26, 1849 in Glatz , district of Glatz , province of Silesia , † October 18, 1919 in Berlin ) was Professor of Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Brieger studied medicine at the universities of Breslau , Strasbourg , Vienna and Berlin and received his doctorate in medicine in 1874 with a thesis on lung burn . He was the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Experimental Pathology and Therapy . He researched metabolic and infectious diseases and examined the basic nature of bacterial toxins . In 1885 he was the first to isolate 1,5-diaminopentane ( cadaverine ) and in 1890 he coined the term toxin when studying the toxins of Salmonella Typhimurium , the causative agent of typhoid .

Works

About Ptomaine (Cadaveralkaloids) with reference to the plant poisons to be taken into account in forensic chemical investigations , C. Lehmann, 1882
Further research on Ptomaine , A. Hirschwald, 1885

Web links

Literature by and about Ludwig Brieger in the catalog of the German National Library
An obituary in the journal he founded for experimental pathology and therapy

literature

Maximilian Watzka: Brieger, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 612 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

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↑ L. Brieger, C. Fraenkel: Studies on bacterial toxins , Berlin Klin. Wochenschr. 1890; 27: 231-246, 268-271.
↑ Helmut Brade (Ed.): Endotoxin in Health and Disease. CRC Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8247-1944-1 , p. 6.

personal data
SURNAME	Brieger, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bald
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1919
Place of death	Berlin

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[3] L. Brieger, C. Fraenkel: Studies on bacterial toxins , Berlin Klin. Wochenschr. 1890; 27: 231-246, 268-271.

[4] Helmut Brade (Ed.): Endotoxin in Health and Disease. CRC Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8247-1944-1 , p. 6.