Paul Römer (hygienist)

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Paul Heinrich Römer (born May 19, 1876 in Kirchhain , † March 30, 1916 in Nowogrodek ) was a German hygienist .

Life

Paul Römer was the son of Hermann Römer , a general practitioner in Kirchhain, and the nephew of Ludwig Gundlach .

Paul Römer began to study medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg . On October 27, 1894, he was reciprocated in his father's corps Teutonia Marburg . Twice he proved himself as a senior . As an inactive he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. In 1899 he passed the state examination and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1903 and was appointed private lecturer in 1904 . Since 1907 associate professor , he spent a year in Argentina to study the drugs from tuberculosisEmil von Behring to try out. In 1908 he was appointed head of department at the Marburg Hygiene Institute by Behring. The Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs appointed him in 1913 as successor to Friedrich Loeffler to the chair at the Royal University of Greifswald . As a medical officer, he went to the First World War in 1914 . On October 1, 1915, he changed to the chair of the Friedrichs University in Halle as the successor to Carl Fraenkel . Not yet 40 years old, he died as a corps hygienist on the Eastern Front of typhus . He left his wife Luise geb. Bene from Niederweimar and their daughter.

Römer was the only student of Behring, in whose research on tuberculosis he played a major role. He also dealt with Paul Ehrlich's side chain theory and poliomyelitis .

"Due to his pioneering experimental studies on polio, Römer has to be considered the actual inventor of the polio vaccination later realized by Salk and Sabin ."

- Rudolf Siegert

Fonts (selection)

  • About drinking water supply with special consideration of the water conditions in Marburg. Elwert, Marburg 1903.
  • Ehrlich's side chain theory and its importance for the medical sciences. Hölder, Vienna 1904.
  • Epidemic polio (Heine-Medin disease). Springer, Berlin 1911.

literature

  • Gerold Brandt: Paul Heinrich Römer, curriculum vitae and tuberculosis research. Diss. Univ. Marburg 1944.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia Marburg 1825 to 2000, p. 185
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 104 , 790
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Contributions to the understanding of the fiber structure in the brain, based on the study of children's brains (WorldCat)
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About tubercle bacilli strains of various origins .
  5. ↑ On the history of the Institute for Hygiene at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  6. ↑ DBE
personal data
SURNAME Romans, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Römer, Paul Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhain , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1916
Place of death Novogrodek , Russia