Otto von Linstow (medic)

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Otto Friedrich Bernhard von Linstow (born October 17, 1842 in Itzehoe ; † May 3, 1916 in Göttingen ) was a German medical officer and helminthologist.

Life

His parents were the Danish lieutenant and later postmaster of Bückeburg August Wilhelm Franz von Linstow (* November 21, 1814 - June 13, 1887) and his wife August Sophie Johanne née Schönfeldt (* October 26, 1819 - November 23, 1899 ).

After attending school in Bückeburg and Hamburg, Linstow studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , later at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg , and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1862 . He became a member of the Corps Holsatia (1863) and the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen (1865). 1866 in Kiel (1866) as Dr. med. after receiving his doctorate, he joined the Prussian Army in 1868 . He served as a military doctor in Ratzeburg , Stade and Hagenau . He took part in the Franco-German War . From about 1880 he was staff and battalion doctor in Hameln and from 1887 senior staff doctor and regimental doctor in Göttingen. On May 7, 1904, he retired as senior physician general .

Linstow devoted himself to helminthology , entomology and lepidopterology . He examined the worms brought back from the Challenger expedition . As a specialist in worm diseases , he was appointed professor in 1911.

On June 30, 1870 he married Anna Emilie Franziska Henriette von Campe (* May 12, 1845) in Bückeburg . The couple had two sons and a daughter. Two children died young. Only the eldest son Otto von Linstow (geologist) survived.

Awards

Fonts

  • Compendium of Helminthology. A list of the known helminths that live free or in animal bodies, sorted according to their dwelling animals, with an indication of the organs in which they are found and with reference to the literature sources . Hanover: Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, 1878, digitized version , with addendum 1889.
  • The poisonous animals and their effect on humans: a handbook for mediciners . Berlin: A. Hirschwald 1894.
  • Nemathelminths , results of the Hamburg Magalhaens collecting trip 1896, III, 8.
  • Nematodes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , Proc. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 26, 1906.
  • Nematodes from the Berlin Zoological Collection . Berlin, R. Friedländer and Son 1899.
  • Report on the Entozoa collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76, Report of the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger , Volume 23, Part 4, 1880.

literature

  • Entry in Gerhard Wagenitz: Göttingen Biologen 1737–1945. A biographical-bibliographical list , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1988, p. 112, Google Books
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, second year, p.559 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Prüser, Thomas Achelis, Kurt Rendtorff ( edit .): List of members Corps Holsatia 1813–1963 (Heidelberg 1963), Part 3 (1848–1895), p. 1862, No. 786
  2. ↑ Thomas Otto Achelis: History of the Corps Holsatia in Kiel 1813-1936 . Kiel 1957, note 539, Appendix 18
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75 , 303; 40 , 557
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, second year, p.191 family von Campe
  5. ↑ The Challenger Medal Roll (1895) ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.19thcenturyscience.org
personal data
SURNAME Linstow, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linstow, Otto Friedrich Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer and helminthologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1916
Place of death Goettingen