Reiner Müller (doctor)

Reiner Müller (born May 20, 1879 in Tetz , Jülich district , † July 5, 1953 in Cologne ) was a German hygienist and bacteriologist .

Life

Consisting of Tetz, now the second largest district of the city Linnich in Düren , originating Reiner Müller devoted himself to the High School to the study of medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , the University of Würzburg , the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he acquired the academic degree of Dr. med. Reiner Müller came as a direct result, a support center at the city's Hygiene Institute at 1908 habilitated himself as a lecturer for the subject Hygiene, 1912, he was appointed honorary professor promoted.

Grave of the Müller family in the Melaten cemetery

In the following year, Reiner Müller was offered a full professorship in hygiene and bacteriology at the Academy for Practical Medicine in Cologne, which was accepted as a medical faculty after the Cologne University was re-established as the new University of Cologne . Since then, Müller has filled the positions of full professor of hygiene and director of the institute of the same name, and in 1951 he retired . After the Second World War he was elected as a member of the State Health Council of North Rhine-Westphalia . Reiner Müller, who was married, died in Cologne at the beginning of July 1953 after a brief illness at the age of 74. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery (hall 12 (G)).

Reiner Müller, who formulated the main concern of hygiene in the sentence “Hygiene tries to prevent diseases, as well as to maintain or increase well-being and performance” , made technical contributions and topographical publications on the early history of the Rhineland .

Publications

• The Burgundy on the Lower Rhine, 410-443. Mundiacum-Mündt, a Nibelung question from the Jülicherland, J. Fischer, Jülich 1924.
• Hygiene textbook for doctors and biologists. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1935.
• Hygiene textbook. Part I: General hygiene with military and industrial hygiene, air, soil, water, food, clothing, personal hygiene, apartment, racial hygiene, in: Lehmann's medical textbooks, Volume XIV Lehmann, Munich [u. a.], 1942; Part II: Medical microbiology, parasites, bacteria, immunity , Munich 1939 (4th, revised edition: Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1950).
• Aduatuca Eburonum Nideggen, J. Fischer, Jülich, 1943.

literature

• Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.), Werner Schuder (Hrsg.), Joseph Kürschner (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29. 3rd edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1929, ISBN 3-11-107168-5 , Sp. 1641-1642.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : The German who's who . XI. Edition of Degener's Who is it ?, 2nd supplemented edition, Arani Verlag, Berlin 1951, p. 445.
• Central sheet for bacteriology, parasite science, infectious diseases and hygiene: originals. Volume 160. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart / New York, p. 381.