Paul Klein (medic)

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Paul Günther Klein (born October 23, 1919 in Schäßburg , Romania ; † March 20, 1998 in Mainz ) was a German physician , microbiologist and immunologist .

Life

He spent his early childhood with his three siblings, including the later Bishop Albert Klein , in Schäßburg. In 1924 the family moved to Sibiu , the hometown of their father, who had received a position at the regional church teachers' college. From 1938 Klein studied medicine in Klausenburg , Tübingen and at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1949 ( On the effect of some redox indicators on the activity of cholinesterase , 1947). He then worked at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Karlsruhe with Richard Böhmig (1898–1972) and at the Institute for Hygiene at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf with Walter Kikuth (1896–1968). He began there to deal with the complement system, which he deepened during a stay at Cornell University . In 1961 he became professor of hygiene at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , which he was able to convert into a professorship for medical microbiology, but he also pursued further research in immunology. He was director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology in Mainz. In 1990 he retired.

In 1965 he showed that the third component C3 of the complement system consists of five proteins. In 1994 Klein received the Robert Koch Medal . A well-known pupil of Klein is the infection biologist Stefan HE Kaufmann , who Klein called "a charismatic teacher and mentor that is seldom found".

He is not to be confused with the American pathologist and immunologist Paul A. Klein (professor at the University of Florida ).

literature

  • Hermann Wagner: In Memoriam: Paul Klein . Med. Microbiol. Immunol., Vol. 187, 1998, p. 1

Fonts

  • R. Böhmig, Klein: Pathology and bacteriology of endocarditis . Springer, 1953
  • Small humoral mechanisms of the immune biological defense . West German Publishing House, Cologne 1968
  • Klein Bacteriological basics of chemotherapeutic laboratory practice , Springer 1957
  • Klein (co-founder), editors: Helmut Hahn, D. Falke, SH Kaufmann, U. Ullmann Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases , Springer, 5th edition 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement about the death of Paul Klein at the Bernhard Nocht Institute ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.bni.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ http://www.infection-research.de/de/have_you_ever_met/detail/view/8/kaufmann/
personal data
SURNAME Little Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Paul Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, microbiologist and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Sighișoara , Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1998
Place of death Mainz