Paul Christiaan Flu

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Paul Christiaan Flu

Paul Christiaan Flu (born February 11, 1884 in Paramaribo , † December 19, 1945 in Leiden ) was a Surinamese tropical medicine .

Life

Paul Christiaan was born as the son of the merchant Petrus Christiaan Flu (born March 17, 1849 in Paramaribo) and Henriette Christina Vereul (December 27, 1862 in Paramaribo; † July 22, 1897). After attending the medical school in Paramaribo, he studied medicine at the University of Utrecht . This was followed by specialist training in ophthalmology and bacteriology . In 1906 he passed his medical exam in Utrecht and worked under Professor Charles Henri Hubert Spronck (born February 18, 1858 in Beek, † December 3, 1932 in Zeist) as an assistant. His medical specialist studies were interrupted when he was called up for military service. In preparation for his future work as a health officer at the Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger , he studied tropical medicine at the University of Hamburg for a few months .

His first station in the military as a health officer was his homeland Suriname, where he began his service in 1908 at the military hospital in Paramaribo. In addition to general medicine, Flu also worked as an eye specialist, as head of the pathological laboratory and as a teacher at the medical school. In July 1911 he was transferred from Suriname to the Dutch East Indies . Before he started his service as a health officer at the medical laboratory in Weltevreden in what is now Jakarta , the Dutch government gave him the opportunity to complete a short course on the plague at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin . The plague was a widespread plague in Indonesia during this period. After he had transferred from the military to the public service, he took up his position at the Eijkman Instituut in Weltevreden in 1912 . Here he continued the scientific work he had already started in Suriname and quickly became a great expert in the field of plague, cholera , typhus , dysentery and filariasis . In addition to his medical and scientific work at the institute, he also wrote numerous scientific papers in the field of tropical medicine.

On May 27, 1920 he was appointed to the professorship of Tropical Hygiene at the University of Leiden , which task was carried out on June 11, 1921 with the speech De invloed van factoren buiten het Menschelijk organisme bij het optreden en de verbreiding van infectieziekten in de tropen (German : The influence of factors outside the human organism in the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases in the tropics ). In recognition of his extensive work as a scientist, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Utrecht in 1936 . In the academy year 1938/39 he was elected rector of the Leiden Alma Mater . He was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau with Swords and Commander of the Egyptian Order of the Nile . In 1935 he switched to the chair of bacteriology and hygiene, which he resigned in 1942, during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

In August 1942, Flu was placed under house arrest by the German occupation for his dispute over liberal work at the university in Leiden. After an attack was carried out on a high-ranking member of the National Socialist Movement in Leiden in January 1944 , the crew abducted Flu and other celebrities from Leiden to the Sint-Michielsgestel internment camp . Flu was later transferred to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp . After the liberation of the Netherlands, Flu received his professorship again on September 4, 1945, but died a short time later in Leiden. In 1973 the Medisch Wetenschappelijk Instituut in Paramaribo was named after him in memory of his services .

family

Flu married Elisabeth Marie Polak (* around 1885; † June 9, 1967 in Lewedorp). There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

  • Henri Flu (born October 6, 1912 in Weltevreden; † January 4, 1944 in Leiden) married July 8, 1939 in Leiden with Valve Targamaa (* around 1917; † June 16, 1979 in Driehuis)
  • Freddy Paul Flu (* around 1916; † March 15, 1982 in Vancouver) married April 25, 1944 in Leiden with Johanna Jacoba Postema (* around 1922; † June 3, 2001 in Vancouver)

Works (selection)

  • The etology of the Granuloma venereum. Leipzig 1911
  • De filaria-ziekte in Suriname. The Hague 1911
  • Tropical hygiene: populaire voordrachten. Batavia 1917, 3rd edition Weltevreden 1930
  • Leerboek the parasitaire was a good thing for hygiene. Weltevreden 1919–1921, 3rd vol.
  • Tropical hygiene, populaire voordrachten, used as leiddraad bij het onderwijs in de hygiene aan de bestuursschool te Weltevreden. Batavia 1920
  • De invloed van factoren buiten het Menschelijk organisme bij het optreden en de verbreiding van infectieziekten in de tropics. Groningen 1921
  • Voordrachten over aetiologie, epidemiologie en specieele prophylaxis van de infectie- en parasitaire ziekten van den Mensch. Haarlem 1936, 1948
  • Handleiding bij het clinisch bacteriologische onderzoek voor analisten en students. Leiden 1938
  • A facet of the virus problem. Haarlem 1939
  • The bacteriophage: a historical and critical survey of 25 years research. Leiden 1946

literature

  • PROF. DR. PC FLU † , in: De Burcht , December 20, 1945, p. 3. ( Online )
  • WH Lionarons: Professor dr. Paul Christiaan Flu 1884-1945 , in: Emancipatie 1863 - 1963. Biographyën. Surinaamse Historische Kring , Paramaribo 1964, pp. 178-184. ( Online )
  • Jan van der Hoeve : In memoriam PROF. DR. PC FLU (February 11, 1884 - December 19, 1945) , in: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Omstreken , AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1946, Volume 38, pp. 159-160.

Web links

  • Flu Dutch biogram
  • Flu in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
  • Flu at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
  • Flu at the digital library of Dutch literature (DBNL)
  • Caraïbisch Uitzicht with a documentary about Paul Christiaan Flu, Dutch

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Death files ( online ) and genealogy link
  2. ↑ cf. Death notification Elisabeth Maria Flu-Polak In: Leidsch Dagblad. June 10, 1967, p. 4 ( online ), see also death notification In: De Burcht. December 20, 1945, p. 4 ( online )
  3. ↑ cf. J. Schreeuder: In memoriam Henri Flu 6 October 1912 - 4 January 1944. In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden and Rijnland. PJ Mulder & Zoon, Leiden 1945, Volume 37, p. 24
  4. ↑ Henri Flu
  5. ↑ cf. Leidsch Dagblad. July 8, 1939, p. 4, marriage notice ( online )
  6. ↑ cf. Death notification Valve Targamaa. In: De Telegraaf. June 19, 1979, p. 11 ( online )
  7. ↑ cf. De Telegraaf. March 25, 1982, obituary notice Freddy Paul Flu, p. 15 ( online )
  8. ↑ cf. Zuidhollandsch Dagblad. April 20, 1944, p. 4 ( online )
  9. ↑ cf. Leidsch Dagblad. June 23, 2001, p. 4 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Flu, Paul Christiaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Paramaribo
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1945
Place of death Suffer