Wilhelm Pfeiffer (veterinarian)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer (born July 16, 1867 in Leubus ; † March 18, 1959 in Gießen ) was a German veterinarian and university professor in Gießen .

Life

Pfeiffer studied veterinary medicine at the veterinary universities in Stuttgart and Berlin from 1887 to 1892 . In October 1894 he became an assistant and in October 1896 a tutor at the Surgical Clinic of the Veterinary University in Berlin. At the same time he studied natural sciences at the University of Berlin from 1994 to 1899 , where he received his PhD in 1899. phil. received his doctorate.

He was a member of the RSC Corps Franconia Berlin (now Kaiserslautern) and Suevia .

In 1899 he succeeded Johann Georg Pflug as full professor of veterinary medicine and director of the animal hospital at the University of Giessen. He built the veterinary institute into an independent faculty (1914) with an expanded faculty and own buildings. Between 1900 and 1914 he was six times chairman of the Veterinary Medical College at the United Medical Faculty and then six times Dean of the Veterinary Medical Faculty. In 1935 he retired. As emeritus he participated in the apprenticeship again from 1939 to 1942 and from 1947 to 1949.

Pfeiffer was a committed arms student all his life and promoted the corps in Giessen.

Honors

  • 1900 honorary doctorate to Dr. med. vet. hc by the Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen
  • 1915 Awarded the title of privy councilor
  • 1949 honorary doctorate to Dr. med. vet. hc by the veterinary faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
  • Honorary member of the Giessen Medical Society
  • Wilhelm Pfeiffer Medal from the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Giessen
  • Wilhelm-Pfeiffer-Strasse in Giessen

Fonts

  • The genus Triboniophorus. Schade, Berlin 1899 (dissertation, University of Berlin, 1899).
  • Operation course for veterinarians and students. Schoetz, Berlin 1897 (new editions until the end of the 1950s).

literature

  • Yvonne Hehnen: Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer, veterinary surgeon 1867–1959. Giessen 1991 (dissertation, University of Giessen, 1991).
  • Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift (BMTW), 74, 1961, supplement in issue 22.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herman Haupt (Ed.): Chronicle of the University of Gießen, 1607 to 1907. Töpelmann, Gießen 1907, p. 85 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Heinrich Diedler: The RSC. History of an extinct corps association. In: then and now . Vol. 55 (2010), p. 321.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Leubus , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1959
Place of death to water