Stephan Angeloff

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Professor Stephan Angeloff 1958
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Certificate on the occasion of the 50th return of his doctorate at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen

Stephan Angeloff ( Bulgarian Стефан Ангелов, Stefan Angelow; born February 28, 1878 in Kotel , † October 1, 1964 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian scientist , from 1941 to 1942 rector of the Sofia University St. Kliment-Ohridski and from 1947 to 1961 Director of the Microbiological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Life

Angeloff came from a family of large landowners from Dobruja . He spent his youth in his hometown until 1882, where he also attended the Progymnasium and then finished his education in Rustschuk in 1885 .

From 1897 to 1901 he studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin , which he successfully completed as a veterinarian. Then he made his one-year military service at the 5th Artillery Regiment in Shumen , and was then district veterinarian doctor in Provadiya . In the fall of 1902 Angeloff became a teacher of veterinary medicine and animal breeding at the State Agricultural School in Sadowo .

From 1905 to 1908 he trained as a microbiologist at the Institute for Hygiene at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin under Robert Koch and at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin under Robert von Ostertag, and worked with August von Wassermann , Friedrich Loeffler and Robert von Ostertag.

His dissertation under Professor Paul Uhlenhuth in 1908 at the University of Giessen with the title The gray translucent knots in the horse's lungs and their relationship to snot disease was described by Johann Wilhelm Schütz as one of the best pathological-anatomical works on the malleus .

In the following years he specialized at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt am Main and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Garches with Gaston Ramon .

From 1909 Angeloff was director of the veterinary-bacteriological center in Sofia. In 1910 he was the first in Bulgaria to successfully develop tuberculin and began producing vaccines and sera against anthrax .

Angeloff initiated and set up a cattle control station near Burgas on the Bulgarian-Turkish border in 1913 . Here the cattle imported from Asia were vaccinated with vaccines developed by him. This previously unique facility received so much attention that scientists from Germany, Italy, Poland and Hungary found out about the methods and measures on site. This ensured that the rinderpest was stopped at the Bulgarian border and further spread to Europe was prevented for the coming years.

In 1923 Angeloff founded the veterinary faculty at the University of Sofia and was appointed professor at the first chair for bacterial infectious diseases.

From 1941 to 1942 Angeloff was rector of the University of St. Kliment-Ohridski in Sofia.

After the war, Angeloff became director of the newly established Microbiological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on July 14, 1947, which he then headed until the end of 1961.

Together with Professor Ljuben Popov , he described the disease erysipeloid in 1949 and discovered the first case of Q fever in Bulgaria in 1951 .

Angeloff was married and had two sons.

Honors

Angeloff received numerous honors for his services in the course of his life. The Bulgarian King Boris III. awarded him u. a. the Commander of the Order of St. Alexander and the Grand Officer 's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit . He was an honorary member of the Hungarian Veterinary Society since 1930 and of the Bulgarian Veterinary Society since 1935, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1932 and from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover in 1940 . He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) since 1939 .

In 1955 he became a corresponding member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in East Berlin . The Karl Marx University in Leipzig awarded Angeloff in 1959 and the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Budapest the title of Dr. med. vet. honoris causa. In his home country Angeloff had been a full member of the Academy of Sciences since 1947 , winner of the Georgi Dimitrov National Prize I (1950) and II class (1962) as well as the order of "Cyril and Methodius" I level.

The Microbiological Institute of Sofia University has been named in his honor since 1994.

literature

  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Stephan Angeloff - Biobibliography. Sofia 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the University of Sofia
  2. ↑ Veterinary Rundschau. of December 1, 1964, No. 12, p. 617.
  3. ^ Member entry by Stefan Angeloff at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2015.
  4. ^ The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig. Published on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, p. 104.
  5. ^ Reports and lectures of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin VII / 1968, 7th ceremony and scientific conference October 17 and 18, 1968 in Berlin. P. 14.
  6. ^ Institute of Microbiology. In: www.microbio.bas.bg. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Angeloff, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelov, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian scientist, Rector of St. Kliment-Ohridski University in Sofia, Director of the Microbiological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotel
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1964
Place of death Sofia