Walter Kikuth

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Walter Kikuth

Walter Kikuth (born December 21, 1896 in Riga ; † July 5, 1968 in Düsseldorf ) was a German-Baltic tropical medicine specialist at Bayer AG. He became famous for the development of various chemotherapeutic agents and contributions to tropical medicine, virology, environmental medicine and hygiene.

Life

Kikuth's parents were the Riga doctor Martin Kikuth and his wife Emmy geb. Schulz. Walter Kikuth attended the 1st State High School in Riga . After graduating from high school, he first studied medicine at the University of Dorpat . He became a member of the Fraternitas Rigensis Dorpat . He moved to the Albertus University of Königsberg (1919/20) and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (1921–1923). Then he was an assistant at the Pathological Institute in the Eppendorf General Hospital . In 1924 he became the new University of Hamburg for Dr. med. PhD . From 1924 to 1928 he was at the Hamburg Tropical Institute . With Martin Mayer , he identified the causative agent of Oroya fever , Bartonella, with Verruga peruviana . In 1927/28 he was on a study trip to Brazil, where he researched blood parasites. In 1928 he married Helga Timmermann, daughter of the founder of the Wilhelmsburger Zinnwerke, in Hamburg. As the successor to Wilhelm Roehl , he was head of chemotherapy at Bayer (IG-Farben) in Wuppertal-Elberfeld from 1929. At the Bayer works in 1930 he found the antimalarial drug atebrine in a screening process . It was synthesized by Fritz Mietzsch and Hans Mauss , who received the Emil Fischer Medal for it. In addition to tropical medicine and chemotherapeutic agents against protozoan parasites, Kikuth also turned to viruses in 1932 . He and H. Gollub detected the canary disease virus. He later turned to research fields such as air hygiene and silicosis . In 1931 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . He was then a private lecturer and from 1938 associate professor for tropical medicine and tropical hygiene. During the German-Soviet War he took part in a meeting on July 23, 1942 at the state hospital in Arnsdorf . There the infection of patients with malaria was discussed in advance. A remedy for typhus that he had tested in animal experiments was tested on prisoners in the typhus experiment department of the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS in Buchenwald concentration camp , headed by Erwin Ding-Schuler . After the war, in 1946 he became acting head of the Düsseldorf Hygiene Institute and in 1948 full professor for hygiene and microbiology. He was responsible for the creation (1962) of the Institute for Air Hygiene and Silicosis Research in Düsseldorf, headed by his former assistant Hans-Werner Schlipköter . He campaigned for hospital hygiene and promoted the vaccination of children against poliomyelitis . He was involved in the founding of the German Tropical Medicine Society and the Society for Allergy and Immunity Research.

Honors, memberships

Fonts

  • About the chemotherapeutic effects of atebine . German Medical Weekly 58 (1932), p. 530.
  • The immunity of protozoal diseases . Medicine and Chemistry 1 (1933), pp. 99-110.
  • The chemoprophylaxis of malaria . Medicine and Chemistry 2 (1934), pp. 263-268.
  • with L. Mudrow: The chemotherapy of malaria in relation to the biology of the plasmodia . Medicine and Chemistry 4 (1942), pp. 44-59.
  • with Walter Menk: The chemotherapy of malaria . Hirzel, Stuttgart 1943, 2nd edition 1944 (chemotherapy of the most important tropical diseases, volume 1).
  • with Arthur Grumbach: The infectious diseases of humans and their pathogens , 2 vol., Thieme, Stuttgart 1958, 2nd edition 1969.
  • The infectious diseases in the mirror of historical and modern considerations . West German publishing house 1959.
  • Virus research . West German publishing house 1951.

editor

  • Results of microbiology, immunity research and experimental therapy . Jumper.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ album fratrum Rigensium . Hechthausen 1981. No. 1178
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About lung cancer .
  3. ↑ H. Bechhold, M. Schlesinger: The particle size of the causative agent of Kikuth-Gollubschen canary bird disease . In: Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases . tape 115 , no. 2 , June 1933, p. 354-357 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02176607 .
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 308
personal data
SURNAME Kikuth, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic tropical medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1968
Place of death Dusseldorf