Otto usurer

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Otto Wucherer, undated photograph.

Otto Eduard Heinrich Wucherer (born July 7, 1820 in Porto , Portugal; † May 7, 1873 in Bahia , Brazil) was a German - Brazilian doctor who discovered the causative agent of the tropical disease lymphatic filariasis ( tropical elephantiasis ). The pathogen Wuchereria bancrofti is named after him and the Australian doctor Joseph Bancroft .

Life

Otto Wucherer was born as the son of a German businessman and his Dutch wife in Porto , Portugal. His family later emigrated to Brazil. He received his school education in Hamburg, after the death of his father he worked there in a pharmacy. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen until 1841 and received his doctorate under Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin (De mutationibus quas syphilis ejusque medendae ratio subiit) . He worked clinically in London, then moved to Portugal and in 1843 to Brazil. In 1847 he settled in Salvador da Bahia as a doctor for the German colony. In addition to his practice, he also worked at the local hospital and was one of the founders of the Gazeta Médica da Bahia magazine . His interest was in parasitology , he was the first to detect hookworms in Brazil . In 1866 he discovered the nematode Wuchereria bancrofti , later named after himself and Joseph Bancroft , the causative agent of lymphatic filariasis ( tropical elephantiasis ) in the urine of a patient. He was also interested in the region's venomous snakes. Wucherer was strongly influenced by the writings of Rudolf Virchow , both scientifically and in social medicine .

In 1871 he returned to Germany and lived with his family in Stuttgart . In January 1873, for economic reasons, usurers were forced to return to Brazil alone, where he died on May 7th.

Wucherer was married twice, his first wife died of yellow fever , and he had a son with his second wife.

literature

  • Julyan G. Peard: Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of ​​the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Duke University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8223-2397-4 .
  • AC Coni: Otto Wucherer. His life and work. In: Revista brasileira de malariologia e doenças tropicais. Publicações avulsas. Volume 19, Number 1, 1967 Jan-Mar, pp. 91-118, ISSN  0034-7256 . PMID 4883216 .
  • FC Edler: The evolution of Brazilian studies on helminths and the Escola tropicalista bahiana (Bahia Tropical School) (1866-1892). In: Parassitologia. Volume 47, number 3-4, December 2005, pp. 271-278, ISSN  0048-2951 . PMID 16866032 .
  • Antônio Pacífico Pereira: Esboço biografíco do Dr. Usurer. In: Gazeta Médica. 6, 1873, pp. 305-309. (Bibliography)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical representation: Otto Eduard Heinrich Wucherer, Dr. med. , Representation after: José Francisco de Silva Lima: Otto Wucherer. In: Gazeta Médica da Bahia . 1906, No. 1. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Peard, p. 22ff.
  3. ^ Peard, p. 72.
  4. ↑ Usurers: Nota preliminar sobre vermes de uma espécie ainda not descripta, Finderados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil. In: Gazeta Médica. No. 3, 1868, pp. 97-99.
  5. ↑ Usurers : Sobre a hematuria no Brazil. In: Gazeta Médica. No. 3, 1869, pp. 39-40, pp. 49-50, 61-62, 73-74, 85-86.
  6. ^ Peard, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Usurer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usurer, Otto Eduard Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH postage
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1873
Place of death Bahia