Ludwig Pfeiffer (hygienist)

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Ludwig Pfeiffer (born August 17, 1861 in Würzburg , † January 7, 1945 in Schwerin ); was a German physician, professor of hygiene and public health officer .

Life

The son of a royal accountant grew up in Munich and passed the Abitur examination at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium in 1879 ; among others with Georg Jochner and Karl Sittl . He then studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association . From 1884 to 1887 he was an assistant at the Pathological Institute; 1886 to 87 with Otto von Bollinger (head: Hugo von Ziemssen ) and at the surgical clinic (head: Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum ) at the university; After the state examination in 1887, he worked at the Hygiene Institute under Max von Pettenkofer until 1894 . In the meantime he had obtained his doctorate in 1886 and completed his habilitation in 1890. From 1894 he taught as associate professor, from 1899 as full professor at the Institute for Hygiene - with a department for the technical analysis of food and a disinfection school - at the University of Rostock, of which he was director from 1894 to 1916, was a member of the medical department from 1894 and the examination committee of the Reich Health Council from 1906 and of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology from 1909. From 1916 until he retired in 1926, he headed the State Health Office in Schwerin .

The physician (hygienist) Ludwig Pfeiffer is not identical with the German doctor, botanist and malacologist Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer (1805–1877) and with the doctor, prehistorian and coin collector Ludwig Pfeiffer (1842–1921).

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Pfeiffer wrote numerous scientific articles, including a. in the specialist journals "Archive for Experimental Pathology" and "Archive for Hygiene" on the dye of melanotic sarcomas, tuberculosis, typhoid morbidity in Munich and protection against the risk of infection.

  • On the fat content of the body and various parts of it in fat and lean animals: Inaug.-Diss. Univ. Munich. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1886
  • Sulphurous acid and its use in the production of food and luxury foods: Rieger, Munich 1888
  • Knowledge of the poisonous effects of sulphurous acid and its salts: Pro venia legendi presented to the medical faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich by Ludwig Pfeiffer. C: Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1890 (habilitation thesis)
  • Agenda for the 8.-11. Meeting of the German Association for Public Health Care taking place in Würzburg on September 9th: Friday, September 9th: 3rd People's Nutrition. Speakers: [...] Privatdocent Dr. Ludwig Pfeiffer (Munich); in: Hygienische Rundschau. Edited by Dr. Carl Fraenkel , Dr. Max Rubner , Dr. Hans Thierfelder , Prof. of Hygiene in Marburg i./H. Prof. of hygiene in Berlin. Privatdocent in Berlin. Born 1892. August Hirschwald, Berlin 1892
  • On the question of the origin and spread of tuberculosis . Festschrift of the Lower Rhine Association for Public Health Care to celebrate Max Pettenkofer's 50th anniversary as a doctor. Bonn, 1893
  • In memory of Max von Pettenkofer : Special edition from the Hygienische Rundschau 1901, No. 15: [Aug. Deer forest; Berlin], 1901
  • The age structure of the Rostock population , in: Festschrift der XXVI. Assembly of the German Association for Public Health Care; dedicated by the city of Rostock: Rostock 1901

literature

  • Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. With a historical introduction. With 669 portraits. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901
  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon. Schulze, Leipzig 1905
  • Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Vol. 2. Berlin and Vienna 1933
  • German Biographical Archive I 951, 249-251; II 1001, 20-21 (WBIS). KG Saur
  • Jürgen Uerckwitz: The history of the Hygiene Institute of the University of Rostock, Diss. Rostock 1969
  • Kathrin Möller: Contributions to the history of industrialization in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. History series Mecklenburg-Vorpommern No. 10. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Landesbüro Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (publisher). Schwerin 2000, p. 83; Note 10
  • Entry by "Ludwig Pfeiffer" in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium, URL: http://purl.uni-rostock.de/cpr/00001808 (accessed on October 13, 2016)
  • Entry on Ludwig Pfeiffer in Kalliope

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1878/79
  2. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 108.
  3. ↑ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar, ed. from the Grand Ducal Statistical Office. Verlag der Bärensprung'schen Hof-Buchdruckerei, Schwerin 1902, pp. 311,460,481,482,
  4. ↑ Annual report of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology for the year from July 1, 1918 to 1919. [Volume] LXXXIV, Schwerin, July 1, 1919, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Ehrenfried Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physician (hygienist), professor and chief officer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1945
Place of death Schwerin