Martin Ficker

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Philipp Martin Ficker (born November 17, 1868 in Sohland on the Spree , † November 22, 1950 in São Paulo ) was a German hygienist and bacteriologist .

Life

Martin Ficker, who was born in 1868 as the son of pastor Julius Gustav Ficker (1826–1899), turned to bacteriology after studying medicine as an assistant to Carl Flügge , and in part together with Emil Gotschlich (1870–1949) the then new areas of bacteriological air tests, published in the Zeitschrift für Hygiene 22 1896, too. From 1896 to 1901 he worked as an assistant to Franz Adolf Hofmann at the Hygiene Institute in Leipzig and completed his habilitation there in 1898 with the topic: “ About the lifespan and death of pathogenic germs. “In 1902 Ficker was brought to the Hygiene Institute in Berlin as head of department . In 1903 he was appointed professor there and in 1908 associate professor. Together with his teacher Max Rubner and Max von Gruber , he published the “ Handbook of Hygiene ” between 1911 and 1923 , in which he wrote the articles on “ General Biology of Microorganisms ” and “ History of the Study of Parasites ”. Because of his work on new staining and culture methods in bacteriology, Ficker was asked to collaborate on other manuals. In 1913 he entered the State Bacteriological Institute in São Paulo. In 1917 he returned to Germany and became head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Experimental Therapy in Berlin-Dahlem , headed by August von Wassermann , where he conducted research on gas fire toxins. In 1923 he went to São Paulo again and founded his own bacteriological laboratory there . From 1926 until the Second World War he headed the research center for microbiology of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in São Paulo. There he worked out a diagnostic flocculation reaction for leprosy .

Martin Ficker, who married Lisa (née Hofmann) in 1914, died on November 22, 1950 at the age of 82 in São Paulo. He was the brother of the theologians Johannes and Gerhard Ficker . Like his brothers, he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now the German Choir ) in the summer of 1888 .

Act

His name is through the " Fickersche Typhusdiagnostikum been known" for several decades much that even practitioners the serological typhoid diagnosis made possible without difficulty.

Other works (selection)

  • Methods of active immunization, methods of antigen presentation , In: Handbuch der Pathogene Mikroorganismen, edited by Wilhelm Kolle and August von Wassermann, II, 1. 1903 3. 1929
  • Methods of Bacterial Promotion , 1929
  • School hygiene , 1911
  • The pathogenic cocci In: Ernst Friedberger and Richard Pfeiffer , Textbook of Microbiology 1919
  • Methods of bacterial staining in smears, methods of Geissel capsule and spore staining In: Rudolf Kraus and Paul Uhlenhuth , Handbuch der Mikrobiologische Technik, 1923

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 94

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personal data
SURNAME Ficker, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ficker, Philipp Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Sohland on the Spree
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1950
Place of death São Paulo