Martin Mayer (physician)

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Martin Mayer (born September 5, 1875 in Mainz , † February 17, 1951 in Caracas ) was a German tropical medicine doctor of Jewish origin who was released from the University of Hamburg on March 26, 1934 as a "non-Aryan" and emigrated to Venezuela .

Career

Stumbling blocks in front of the entrance to the main building O 10 of the Hamburg University Hospital, including a stumbling block for Martin Mayer

Mayer was approved in 1899. His teacher was the Hamburg tropical medicine specialist Bernhard Nocht . At the Hamburg Institute for Ship and Tropical Medicine , he worked as a research assistant since 1904, most recently as head of the department for bacteriology , e.g. B. Oroya fever and sleeping sickness . As part of this activity, Mayer undertook a trip together with Friedrich Fülleborn in 1906 to study tropical diseases and to collect teaching material to Egypt, Ceylon, India and German East Africa . In 1907/08 another expedition followed on behalf of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation to study tropical pathogens to German East Africa. The colonial doctor Carl Mense gave u. a. in 1916 he became the editor for the archive for ship and tropical hygiene . He completed his habilitation in parasitology . In 1916 he was awarded the title of professor, in 1931 he was appointed associate professor. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . A stumbling block in front of the main building of the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center reminds of him.

Fonts

  • with Rudolf Otto Neumann : Atlas and textbook of important animal parasites and their vectors. With special consideration of tropical pathology. Lehmann, Munich 1914.
  • with Bernhard Nocht : Malaria. An introduction to their clinic, parasitology and control. Springer, Berlin 1918; 2nd, expanded edition 1936.

literature

  • Felix Brahm: Jewish tropical doctors in exile in Latin America. Martin Mayer and Otto Hecht in Venezuela and Mexico. In: Albrecht Scholz, Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): Emigrant fates. Influence of Jewish emigrants on social policy and science in the receiving countries (= medicine and Judaism. Vol. 7). Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-935964-38-2 , pp. 189-200.
  • Hendrik van den Bussche (ed.): Medical science in the "Third Reich". Continuity, adaptation and opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty (= Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science. Vol. 5). Reimer, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-496-00477-0 .
  • Erich Mannweiler: History of the Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, 1900–1945 (= treatises of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg. New series, vol. 32). Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 1998, ISBN 3-931374-32-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Mayer. In: Deutsches Koloniallexikon (1920). Retrieved October 29, 2015 .
  2. ^ Olaf Brethauer: The tropical medicine specialist Carl Mense (1861-1938), life and work , archive of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2000
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tropical medicine specialist and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1951
Place of death Caracas