Hans Vogel (scientist)

Hans Vogel (* 1900, † 1980) was a German tropical medicine and parasitologist. He spent his academic career mainly at the Bernhard -Nocht- Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, whose director he was from 1963 to 1968.

Career

Mid-1920s, Hans Vogel came to the Bernhard -Nocht- Institute, where he worked alone on questions of the development cycle and together with his colleague Waldemar Minning on immunology, diagnostics and therapy. In 1933 he became Head of Department.

Hans Vogel discovered in 1931 the complex development cycle of the cat liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus, a causative agent of liver diseases in humans and animals, snails and fish as intermediate hosts and infects cats or humans as definitive hosts. His discovery and his subsequent works were key prerequisites for the later development of control measures against schistosomiasis.

1934 succeeded Hans Vogel to identify crabs of the genus Potamon as an intermediate host of Paragonimus Lungenegels in a research trip to China westermani. During this stay in China, he also observed that a schistosomiasis in endemic regions in adolescents difficult runs than in older patients. His guess was that the older patients had acquired an immunity. The research lasted for almost 20 years, and were complicated by the fact that the pathogen, the blood fluke, a development cycle goes through with double change of host. It succeeded Nocht to collect snails Oncomelania hupensis the type 1937 in the Chinese province of Zhejiang and breed these intermediate hosts permanently in Hamburg. In this way, the life cycle of schistosomes in the laboratory could be maintained over decades. 1950 could prove bird after 12 years of work that rhesus monkeys can be immunized against attack by Schistosoma japonicum.

In his further career he researched and described in the 1950s the life cycle and the etiology of the fox tapeworm ( Echinococcus multilocularis ), the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis. Inspired by the findings of American researchers colleague Robert L. Rausch and Everett L. Schiller, who found a correlation between a high incidence of the fox tapeworm and diseases of Inuit in alveolar echinococcosis on islands in Alaska, he led from 1954 to 1957 research in southern Germany by. He found fox adult tapeworms in foxes and heaped alveolar cysts in voles. He was able to demonstrate the development cycle of the parasite by feeding experiments, and demonstrate that the alveolar hydatid disease of humans caused by another pathogen as cystic echinococcosis. The represented almost a century in the Parasitology considers both diseases are caused by the Tripartite dog tapeworm was refuted.

1961 undertook bird with the Director of the Bernhard -Nocht- Institute, Ernst Georg Nauck, and his colleague Hans -Harald Schumacher a reconnaissance trip to Cameroon and Sudan to there a location for the proposed by Bernhard -Nocht- Institute research station in the tropics to find.

After Nauck was retired in 1963 was Hans Vogel Director of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, and took over the associated Chair. During his tenure, the planning and construction of the research station opened in January 1968 in Bong Town, Liberia fell. In addition, the reconstruction of the destroyed in the Second World War tract clinic of the Institute in 1968 concluded. In the same year bird surrendered his office to his successor, Hans -Harald Schumacher. The interior of the 1971 opened Department of Biochemistry was still led by Bird in the way.

Hans Vogel was honored in 1973 with the Mary Kingsley Medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The tapeworm Echinococcus vogeli, a causative agent of endemic in South America polycystic echinococcosis was named after him.

Writings

• Hans Vogel: The life cycle of Opisthorchis felineus ( Riv. ) along with comments on systematics and epidemiology. In: Zoologica, Volume 33, 1934, pp. 1-103, ISSN 0044-5088.
• Hans Vogel: China without a mask. 20000 km with the Swiss film expedition. With 120 photographs taken on 80 art print panels. Albert Müller, Zurich, Leipzig, 1937, 178 pp.
• Hans Vogel, Waldemar Minning: About the acquired resistance of Macacus rhesus Schistosoma japonicum against. In: Journal of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Volume 4, 1953, pp. 418-505, ISSN 0044- 359x.
• Hans Vogel: About the development cycle and the species membership of the European Alveolarechinococcus. In: German Medizinische Wochenschrift, Vol 80, 1955, pp. 931-932, ISSN 0012-0472.
• Hans Vogel: About the Echinococcus multilocularis in southern Germany I. The tapeworm stage of strains of human and animal origin ( Echinococcus multilocularis in South Germany I. The tapeworm stage of strains from humans and animals. ). In: Journal of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Volume 8, 1957, pp. 404-454, ISSN 0044- 359x.