Paul Kohlstock

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Dr. Paul Kohlstock's Guide to the Tropics ( Museum in the Ritterhaus )

Paul Martin Julius Kohlstock (born January 5, 1861 in Berlin , † April 14, 1901 in Tientsin ) was a German medical officer and tropical medicine officer.

Life

Kohlstock, son of the judiciary Hans Mansuetus Julius Kohlstock, studied at the medical and surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute . In 1879 he joined the Pépinière-Corps Franconia. He was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and promoted to assistant doctor in 1884. In the protection force for German East Africa , he conducted studies on malaria from 1889 . Since 1890 medical officer, he was from 1891 to 1893 assistant doctor at the III. Medical Clinic of the Charité . In 1890 he married Olga von Livonius, daughter of the officer Wilhelm von Livonius . From 1891 he was a teacher for tropical hygiene at the seminar for oriental languages . He was assigned to the Reich Office of the Interior and attached to the Reich Commissioner for Combating Cholera in the Elbe River region. He was practically deployed a number of times as a commissioner in cholera centers. In 1896 he came to the Reich Colonial Office as a medical consultant for medical matters . In the same year he accompanied Robert Koch on the expedition to South Africa. In the Cape Colony and in German South West Africa the focus was on researching and combating rinderpest . Appointed senior staff doctor and professor in 1898, he was in command of the protection forces from 1899 . His publications and lectures dealt with tropical hygiene, malaria, blackwater fever and rinderpest. In 1900 he went to China with the expeditionary force to crush the Boxer Rebellion . There he died at the age of 40 of typhus , the disease of his doctoral thesis .

Works

  • Medical adviser for East Africa and tropical malaria areas ,
  • Medical services in the German protected areas . German military medical calendar, 1901 a. ff.
  • About the employment relationships of the doctors in the German protected areas . German Medical Weekly 1899
  • Communications from the field of tropical hygiene and tropical pathology . German military medical calendar 1900.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 60/146.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the casuistry of typhus abdominalis in children .
  3. ↑ Pagel 1901
  4. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon (1920)
personal data
SURNAME Kohlstock, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlstock, Paul Martin Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief Medical Officer of the Prussian Army, tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1901
Place of death Tientsin