Reinhold Ruge

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Reinhold Ruge (born April 19, 1862 in Dresden , † August 15, 1936 in Klotzsche ) was a German medical officer in the Imperial Navy , most recently in the rank of senior general physician and professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

family

Ruge came from an Evangelical Lutheran family from northern Germany . His grandfather, the doctor Christian August Ruge , took part in the battle of Waterloo . The father Sophus Ruge was an economic geographer. The brother Walther Ruge was a philologist and high school professor at the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig. His nephew was Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge .

Life

Reinhold Ruge joined the Imperial Navy in 1881 and studied medicine from 1881 to 1885 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin. In 1882 he became a member of the Pépinière-Corps Franconia . His doctoral thesis was on "Antipyrine and the antipyretic agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis". In 1885 he was sent to the Charité as an assistant . 1888-1889 he served as a naval doctor on the East African blockade squadron off the coast of what would later become the German colony of German East Africa , from 1892 to 1894 in South and Central America and from 1897 to 1899 in the West Indies , the Atlantic Islands and the Mediterranean. Even during these assignments, Ruge was intensively involved in studying tropical medicine.

In 1899/01 he was assigned to the Robert Koch Institute . Since 1901 he worked as a teacher for tropical diseases and tropical hygiene at the University of Kiel . In 1902 he completed his habilitation in Kiel on the subject of "Questions and problems in modern malaria research ". In 1906 he was appointed professor. Ruge, who was deployed on the Carpathian Front from January 1915 to February 1917, retired in 1917 as Senior General Physician in the Navy and died on August 15, 1936 in Klotzsche.

Fonts

  • On the plasmodia in malaria diseases , 1892.
  • Introduction to the Study of Malaria Diseases , 1901, 2nd ed. 1906, engl. 1903.
  • Amoebas and bacillary dysentery in Menses Handbuch der Tropicalkrankheiten, 1905.
  • Tropical hygiene and tropical diseases (together with Marine Chief Medical Officer Max zur Verth ), 1912, from 1925 under the title:
  • with Peter Mühlens and Max zur Verth: Diseases and Hygiene in Warm Countries. A textbook for practice. 5th, completely revised edition. G. Thieme, Leipzig 1942
  • The Ruhr forms of the warm countries , 1926

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Ruge, In four Marines. Life memories as a contribution to contemporary history (page 14). Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7637-5219-6 .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 60 , 188
personal data
SURNAME Ruge, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer, senior general practitioner, professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1936
Place of death Klotzsche