Werner Schopper
Werner Schopper (born September 4, 1899 in Leipzig , † December 20, 1984 in Darmstadt ) was a German pathologist.
Life
Schopper was born as the son of the businessman Robert Schopper and Clara Meinhardt. After graduating from high school in Leipzig in 1917, he studied medicine in Freiburg and Leipzig. In 1920 he became a member of the Corps Thuringia Leipzig . In 1924 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and passed the state examination. In 1926 he became an assistant doctor and in 1929 senior physician at the Pathological Institute of the University of Giessen. He completed his habilitation in 1930 at the University of Gießen for general pathology and pathological anatomy and was appointed private lecturer in the same year. In 1932 he received a grant from the Rockefell Foundation with an eight-month cancer research assignment in the USA. In 1935 he was appointed adjunct professor of pathology at the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University. In 1937 he became a prosector and head of the Pathological Institute of the St. Georg Municipal Hospital in Leipzig. From 1946 he was director of the pathological institute of the municipal hospitals in Darmstadt. In 1968 he retired.
Schopper was a member of the William Kerkhoff Foundation. In 1953 he was awarded the Ribbon of the Corps Rhenania Bonn .
Werner Schopper died on September 20, 1984 in Darmstadt.
Honors
- 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Schopper, Werner. In: Register of the Bonner Rhenania 1820–2003 (= Blue Books of the Bonner Rhenania. Vol. 6). Düsseldorf 2003, p. 343.
Web links
- Werner Schopper in the Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schopper, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1984 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |