Rudolf Wetzel

Rudolf Wetzel (born April 9, 1895 at Gut Lindenhof near Wingendorf , Flöha district ; † January 4, 1983 in Gießen ) was a German veterinarian .

Life

Rudolf Wetzel, born in 1895, after graduating from high school, studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden between 1919 and 1922 , which he completed with the academic degree of Dr. med. vet. graduated from the University of Leipzig. Here he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Dresden (today Landsmannschaft Hansea auf dem Wels ) in the summer semester of 1919 . Following his studies he was an assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the Hannover Veterinary School , he attended the in 1929 for the subject of Veterinary Parasitology and Zoology habilitated .

After studying zoology for several semesters at the University of Göttingen as well as longer stays at domestic and foreign specialist institutes, Wetzel was first given a teaching position in zoology in 1931 , and in 1933 one in parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover. After the parasitology department had an independent department, Wetzel's appointment as apl. Professor .

In 1934 he accepted the chair for veterinary parasitology and zoology at the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, and from 1937 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin while temporarily maintaining his teaching duties in Hanover. In 1942 Rudolf Wetzel was appointed professor and head of the newly founded Institute for Tropical Veterinary Medicine. But he kept the teaching posts for parasitology and zoology as well as the provisional management of his previous institute.

In 1949 Wetzel was entrusted with the management of the Parasitological Institute of Bayer AG in Wuppertal-Elberfeld , before moving to the newly established full professorship for Parasitology at the Veterinary Medical Faculty at the University of Giessen in 1954 , which he held until his retirement in 1965. Rudolf Wetzel died in Gießen in 1983 at the age of 88.

Honors

Rudolf Wetzel was honored for his scientific life's work by being awarded an honorary professorship from the University of Caracas , an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent and honorary memberships of the German Tropical Medicine Society and the German Society for Parasitology.

Act

Rudolf Wetzel, who paid particular attention to the parasitoses of domestic and wild animals, made fundamental contributions to the epidemiology of parasitoses in addition to fundamental work on taxonomy and the elucidation of the development cycles of horse trongylids and other helminths . In addition, he suggested being one of the first control programs based on confirmed epidemiological knowledge.

Fonts

• With Karl Glässer, Edmund Hupka: The diseases of the pig. 5th edition, Schaper, Hannover 1950.
• On the stomach worm disease in cattle. Terra-Verlag, Konstanz a. B. 1950.
• With Friedrich Schwangart, Richard Reinhardt : The diseases of the cat: with explanations about descent, breeds, breeding, keeping and judging. Issue 2, M. & H. Schaper, 1952.
• With Walter Rieck : Wildlife Diseases. Detection, Prevention, and Control, A Guide for Hunters, Veterinarians, Biologists, and Farmers. 2nd, revised edition, Parey, Hamburg, Berlin 1972.
• Studies on tissue irritation and necrosis in calves and rabbits as a result of intramuscular injection of antibacterial preparations. 1986.

Web links

• Rudolf Wetzel April 9, 1895– January 4, 1983. In: Parasitology Research, Issue 70. Number 1, Pages 1-2, January 1984.
• Professor Rudolf Wetzel 75 years. In: Parasitology Research, Issue 34, Number 1, Page 1, March 1970.