Max Thierfelder

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Max Ulrich Thierfelder (born August 8, 1885 in Rostock ; † April 21, 1957 in Bandung ( Indonesia )) was a German military doctor and tropical medicine .

Life

Max Thierfelder was a son of the Rostock university professor and pathologist Albert Thierfelder and his first wife Mathilde, nee. Schulze (1845-1885). After graduating from the Great City School in Rostock, he studied medicine at the University of Rostock and in Berlin from 1904 to 1909 . After receiving his doctorate and license to practice medicine in 1910, he worked as a surgical assistant in Hanover. In 1911 he traveled to Africa as a ship's doctor and from 1911 to 1913 worked at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Lausanne .

In 1913 he became a government doctor in the German colony of German East Africa , where he devoted himself to fighting sleeping sickness on Lake Tanganyika . His next function was that of the port doctor and head of the health service and a hospital in Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania ). During World War I he was chief physician of the field hospital in the East African campaign under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and interned by the British in Egypt after the end of the war.

In 1920 he was active in colonial service on behalf of the Dutch-Indian government, he attended the Tropical Institute in Amsterdam and from 1921 was a pathologist at the Weltevreden Medical Laboratory on Java . From 1922 he was in South New Guinea ; In 1925 he was appointed professor. In 1927 he became head of the health service in Semarang (Central Java) and from 1934 to 1940 in Bandung (West Java). With the attack on the Netherlands during the Second World War (May 10, 1940), all civilians with a German background were arrested and interned throughout the Indian archipelago. Thierfelder was interned in Alas Vallei ( Sumatra ) and used as a camp doctor there and later in the internment hospital in Dehradun ( British India ).

Back in Germany, Thierfelder was district doctor for the Untertaunus in Bad Schwalbach from 1948 to 1952 . Then he went back to Indonesia and worked for the Indonesian government. He was head of the Laboratory Kesehatan Daerah in Medan ( North Sumatra ) and was 1955 installer and then director of the Cancer Research Institute Lembaga Kanker in Bandung (West Java), where he worked until his death.

Max Thierfelder was the father of two children who also worked in tropical medicine. His son Peter Albert (born November 2, 1920 in Lausanne, Switzerland) was a doctor in Sumatra and Borneo from 1951 to 1967 and his daughter Anne-Marie Kunigunde (born July 30, 1923 in Merauke, New Guinea) was a doctor in Sumatra from 1953 to 1959 and in Bandung. Both had completed parts of their medical studies at the University of Rostock.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the teaching of trachoma:
    • 1. The trachoma in Mecklenburg from 1902 to 1907.
    • 2. Studies on the occurrence of so-called body cells in trachoma.
      [Solution of the price question posed by the medical faculty for 1907/08], Adler, Rostock 1909 ( digital.zbmed.de )
  • About a case of phakocele in corneal tuberculosis along with anatomical findings. (Dissertation, 1910)
  • De hygiene in Bandoeng en Omstreken. (1940)
  • Circulus hominis sanguinis deductur ex empiria pathologica. (1956)

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10067-10068 .
  • Werner Teichmann:  Thierfelder, Max Ulrich. In: Sabine Pettke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg : Series A). Volume 1, Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-7950-3702-6 , pp. 221-224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy of Max Thierfelder in the portal wikitree.com
  2. ↑ Walther Neumann (ed.): The large city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries. An anniversary font. Boldt, Rostock 1930, p. 167.
  3. ↑ Entries on Max Thierfelder in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  4. ^ Entry on Peter Albert Thierfelder in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  5. ^ Entry on Anne-Marie Kunigunde Thierfelder in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  6. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10067-10068 .
personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thierfelder, Max Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor and tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1957
Place of death Bandung ( Indonesia )