Waldemar Haffkine
Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine (born March 15, 1860 in Odessa , Russian Empire , † October 25, 1930 in Lausanne ) was a bacteriologist .
Life
Haffkine studied medicine at the University of Odessa , received his doctorate in 1884 and then found a job at the University's Zoological Museum. After a few essays on physiology , Haffkine first went to the University of Basel to work under Ugo Schiff , then to the University of Paris to work under Louis Pasteur .
In 1893 he went to India , where he vaccinated 45,000 people against cholera . This reduced the death rate by 70 percent. From 1895 on, Haffkine was the first to work with a vaccine against cholera and a plague vaccine that used killed pathogens. From 1899 to 1905, Haffkine headed the Haffkine Institute named after him , a laboratory in Bombay that worked in the field of pestilence bacteriology .
The genus Khawkinea is also named in his honor.
literature
- Joël Hanhart: Waldemar Mordekhaï Haffkine (1860–1930). Biography intellectual . Honoré Champion, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-7453-3074-1 .
Web links
- Biography at the Pasteur Institute (French)
- Haffkine Institute website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haffkine, Waldemar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bacteriologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1930 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |