Werner von Raven

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Werner Alborus von Raven (born January 14, 1875 in Berlin ; † September 12, 1928 there ) was a German doctor and tropical medicine .

Life

Werner von Raven passed his matriculation examination in Berlin and then studied medicine at the University of Berlin in 1896 and from 1898 to 1901 . Then he was a volunteer assistant at the Charité in Berlin. In December 1901 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Berlin for his work Two Cases of Fibrinous Bronchitis with special consideration of the symptomatology and the sputum findings. med. PhD. Due to his later activities at the Institute for Infectious Diseases under Robert Koch , he was selected as a doctor and bacteriologist for the Central Africa expedition of Duke Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg , which started in Bukoba in June 1907 . After completing this expedition he worked as an assistant to Prof. Bitter in Egypt and from 1908 government doctor and district administrator in Togo. In October 1908 he became head of the sleeping sickness commission there and was also head of the camp for sleeping sick people in Kloto , where, in addition to the Atoxyl developed by Koch, he also tested other preparations - including the arsphenamine developed by Paul Ehrlich - on the sick. At the beginning of the First World War , von Raven was an assistant doctor in the reserve in Togo. After being wounded on the Chra (in Togo) at the end of August 1914, he was taken prisoner by the French and spent in Médéa (Algeria). After the war, von Raven worked as a tropical medicin in Berlin, was appointed medical councilor and later senior government councilor in the Reich Ministry of Economics.

Publications

  • with Peter Mühlens : On the question of hemolysin and toxin formation in cholera vibrio . Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases 55 (1906)
  • with Max Hartmann : Investigations into the finer structure and development of Proteosoma . Berlin 1908/09.
  • Reports on the activities of the Sleeping Sickness Commission 1909–1912 . Official Journal for the Togo Protected Area.
  • The current state of infection therapy for progressive paralysis, especially malaria treatment and its practical results . Dermatological Weekly 83 (1926).

Awards

criticism

Raven today accuses the human experiments carried out in the former German colony of Togo. Elsewhere, Raven is praised for his caring.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal of the history of collections, Volume 12, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 163
  2. ↑ Archive for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, Volume 11, 1907, p. 418
  3. ↑ Twentieth century ethics of human subjects research: historical perspectives, Volker Roelcke , Giovanni Maio, Institute for the History of Medicine and Science, 2004, pp. 78–81
  4. ^ Deutsches Kolonialblatt: Official Journal of the Reich Colonial Office, volumes 27–28; 1916, p. 17
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 34, 1965, CA Starke Verlag, p. 319
  6. ↑ The woman as a test subject: medical human experiments, Katja Sabisch, 2007, pp. 227–228
  7. ↑ Our old colony Togo: OV Metzger, 1941, p. 79
personal data
SURNAME Raven, Werner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raven, Werner Alborus von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1928
Place of death Berlin