Emil Pfeiffer
Emil Pfeiffer (* March 1, 1846 in Wiesbaden, † July 13, 1921 ) was a German internist and pediatrician.
Life
Pfeiffer attended high school in Wiesbaden and then studied medicine in Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin, where he gained his doctorate in 1869. Subsequently, he was first field assistant physician in the German - French war before he in 1872 settled as a physician in Wiesbaden. Here he made a name for himself as a spa doctor and dealt in detail with the healing effects of the mineral waters from domestic sources. As a pediatrician, he dealt with issues of infant feeding, campaigned for the establishment of children's homes and crèches and described the later named after him, glandular fever ( infectious mononucleosis, one caused by the Epstein -Barr virus infectious disease of the lymphatic tissue ).
Between 1887 and 1905 he was secretary of the Society for Pediatrics. As an internist, he published several writings on the gout, and was a founding member and Permanent Secretary of the 1882 to 1914 founded in Wiesbaden Congress of Internal Medicine, one of the most important annual meeting migrant clinicians of the German-speaking world. On the recommendation of a colleague, he was called for consultation of difficult gout diseased Shah of Iran Muzaffar al-Din Shah to Tehran.
Outside medicine Pfeiffer also dedicated himself to botany with great interest. In his garden he bred many rare plants. Artistic talent he combined with his interest in science by the watercolors of wild plants his home. At the Museum Wiesbaden in the library of the Natural Science Collection more than 1,200 watercolors by Pfeiffer are kept, which were made available in 2012 by the museum as a DVD to the public.
Publications
- Wiesbaden as a watering place. 3rd edition. , 1888.
- The mineral water from Fachingen. Second, completely umgearb. Ed Wiesbaden 1894.
- Flora of Wiesbaden. Name list of occurring in the neighborhood of Wiesbaden ferns and flowering plants. In: Yearbooks of the Nassau Association for Natural History. 73, Wiesbaden 1921, pp. 2-40.