Gustav Hauser

Gustav Hauser ( born July 13, 1856 in Nördlingen, † June 30, 1935 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.

Hauser studied medicine in Munich and Erlangen, where he received his doctorate. After further training in Leipzig and Vienna, he habilitated in 1883 and worked as an assistant in Erlangen. In 1895, he was Professor of Pathology as a successor to Friedrich Albert von Zenker. He became famous for the discovery of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis. According to him, the Gustav Hauser Street is named in Erlangen.

During his studies he became a member of the fraternity Germania Erlangen.