Willi Rimpau
Georg Willi Rimpau (born January 16, 1877 in Braunschweig , † August 9, 1963 in Munich ) was a German hygienist and microbiologist .
life and work
The son of the particulars Dietrich Rimpau spent his school days in Braunschweig and then studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen and Munich . In Munich he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1903, Rimpau became assistant to Robert Koch at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. This was followed by a job as an unskilled worker in the medical department of the Prussian Ministry of Culture . From 1905 to 1907 he worked in the fight against typhus in Metz and Trier and then took over the management of the bacteriological institute in Hagenau in Alsace. He switched to the Imperial Health Department in Berlin as an unskilled worker . On January 1, 1911, he became the second director of the newly founded Royal Bacteriological Research Institute in Munich. At the side of Max von Gruber and Adolf Dieudonné , the subsequent state institute was expanded. From 1942 he was a member of the Leopoldina . Rimpau retired in 1948.
Rimpau conducted research in the areas of disease control , microbiology and geomedicine and wrote several publications on this. He was appointed royal professor because of his services in combating the typhus epidemic that raged in Munich in the summer of 1913 .
Honors
- 1941: Prize of the "Foundation for Experimental Therapy", Aronson Prize until 1933 , together with J. Kathe (Breslau)
- 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts (selection)
- Contribution to the question of the spread of the bacilli of the paratyphoid group. Springer, Berlin 1909, OCLC 705578159 .
- On the history of geoepidemiology. In: Publications from the field of the public health service. Volume 48, issue. 3. R. Schoetz, Berlin 1937, OCLC 14221466 .
- The leptospirosis . A brief presentation for doctors, veterinarians and health authorities. In: Monographs of the "Medical Clinic". 8 Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1950, DNB 454048599 .
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 492 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 1941, ISSN 0341-3098 , p. 568
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rimpau, Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rimpau, Georg Willi (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hygienist and microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1963 |
| Place of death | Munich |