Friedrich Loeffler
Privy Councillor Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler (* June 24, 1852 in Frankfurt ( Oder), † April 9, 1915 in Berlin) was a German physician, hygienist and bacteriologist, a pupil of Robert Koch in Berlin.
Life and work
Loeffler was born in 1852 as the son of military doctor Gottfried Franz Friedrich Loeffler and studied from 1870 to 1874 in Würzburg and Berlin medicine. He was then at the Imperial Health Office staff of Robert Koch discovered the causative agent of various infectious diseases, such as glanders, diphtheria (1884, together with Edwin Klebs the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae ) and erysipelas.
In 1888 he became professor of hygiene and history of medicine at the University of Greifswald.
He described together with Paul Frosch (1860-1928) the causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease as a particulate agent smaller than a bacterium. He was a co-founder of virology. The virus of foot-and -mouth disease virus was first described in the animal world ( around 10 years earlier, Dimitri Ivanovsky ( 1864-1920 ) and Martinus Willem Beijerinck the tobacco mosaic virus discovered in plants ). He succeeded in producing the first protective serum against foot- and -mouth disease, which did not come for reasons of cost for the application.
Loeffler worked as Kommunalhygieniker in Greifswald. He was involved in the fight against epidemics and infectious diseases, advocated for the improvement of street cleaning and removal system and the construction of sewers in Greifswald. His saying, "And they built is yet ," he hurled at the opponents of the sewer project defiantly is cited frequently.
On Riems he founded in 1910 the first virological research institute, but left it when he was appointed in 1913 as head of the Robert Koch Institute.
Loeffler was a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg ( 1870), Suevo Borussia (1872 ) and Guestfalia Greifswald ( IdC July 19, 1902 ). His son was the orthopedist Friedrich Loeffler.
Fundamental work
- Loeffler, F.; Frosch, P.: Reports of the Commission for the Study of foot-and -mouth disease at the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin. Zbl. Bakt I / Orig 1897; 22: 257-259, 1898; 23: 371-391
- Loeffler, F.: to immunity question. Mitt kaiserl. Health Centre 1 (1882) 134-187
- Loeffler, F.: Investigation of the role of microorganisms in the development of diphtheria. Mitt kaiserl. Health Authority 2 (1884) 421-499
Honors
- Honorary citizen of Greifswald ( 1913)
- Commemorative Deutsches Hygiene- Museum in Dresden 's 100th birthday
- Dr. iur. H.C.
- Dr. med. H.C.
- Loeffler -Straße in Greifswald
- Löffler in Vienna - Hietzing (1931 )
- Special of the 105th German Medical Assembly (Rostock 2002)
- Commemorative stamp (85 cents) for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Friedrich- Loeffler- Institute on 7 October 2010