Arthur Nicolaier
Arthur Nicolaier ( born February 4, 1862 in Cosel; † August 28, 1942 in Berlin) was a German internist.
Curriculum vitae
Originally from a Jewish family in Upper Silesia Arthur Nicolaier studied in Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen medicine and graduated in 1885 in Göttingen with the thesis " Contributions to the etiology of tetanus ". From 1897 he worked at the University Hospital in Göttingen as assistant medical director until 1900 he followed a call to Berlin. In 1921 he was appointed there as an associate professor of internal medicine. He looked at the Charité. Because of its origin was Nicolaier - that was in 1921 resigned from the Jewry - gem on 14 September 1933. § 3 of the Law on Civil Servants professional teaching license revoked. Unlike many of his colleagues pursued Nicolaier wandered not. When the deportation to the so-called old-age ghetto Theresienstadt it was announced after the expulsion from his Berlin apartment in 1941, he took on 28 August 1942 in Berlin life.
Scientific achievements
Already in his time in Göttingen, as assistant to the hygienist Carl Flügge (1847-1923), discovered the bacterium Clostridium tetani Nicolaier 1884. The gram-positive, obligate anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium moving and is causative agent of tetanus (tetanus ). He led hexamethylenetetramine 1894 under the name urotropin in chemotherapy especially for the treatment of bacterial urinary tract infections a.