Karl Bernhard Lehmann

Karl Bernhard Lehmann ( born September 27, 1858 in Zurich, † 28 January 1940 in Würzburg ) was a German physician and bacteriologist. He is considered one of the pioneers of microbiology and industrial hygiene in Germany.

Family and Education

Lehmann was a son of the German physician Friedrich Lehmann from Frankenthal (Pfalz ) and his wife Friederike, née Sparrow from Speyer, who lived in Switzerland. Lehmann visited the Beust'sche private school and high school in Zurich and then graduated in medicine in Munich, where he habilitated in 1886.

His brother was the publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann (1864-1935); his grandfather was mayor in Frankenthal.

Activities and research

As a student Pettenkofer Lehmann 1884 began, while still a student in Munich, with the investigation of the most important industrial gases. With his move to Würzburg and the establishment of the Institute for Hygiene found under his leadership, in collaboration with Ferdinand Flury from the Institute of Pharmacology significant toxicological research instead.

From 1894 to 1932 Lehmann was Professor of Hygiene at the University of Würzburg. From 1896 he published together with Rudolf Otto Neumann ( 1868-1952 ), a bacteriological manual and textbook, which contains in its various editions, the first description of many types of bacteria. Lehmann and Flury defined for over 100 agents acceptable limits they published in 1938 and which were the basis of the later MAK values ​​.

The Wuerzburg Institute founded by Lehmann developed between the first and the second world war into the most important hygienic- toxicological research institution in Germany.

Publications

  • Lehmann / Flury: Toxicology and Hygiene of technical solvents. Berlin, 1938.
  • Merry working lives ( memoirs ). Munich, 1933.
  • About the health conditions of the workers in the German ceramic especially the porcelain industry with special reference to tuberculosis question. Berlin 1929.
  • The dust in the industry, its importance to the health of workers and the recent advances in the field of its prevention and control. Leipzig 1925.
  • The German lead paint industry from the standpoint of hygiene. Berlin 1925.
  • Short Textbook of labor and industrial hygiene. Leipzig, 1919.
  • The importance of chromates to the health of workers. Berlin, 1914.
  • Opinion of the Reich Health Council concerning the sewage disposal of the city of Offenbach am Main. Berlin, 1913.
  • On the Psychology and Hygiene of the beverages. Würzburg, 1912.
  • Lehmann / Neumann: Atlas and essentials of bacteriology and text-book of special bacteriologic diagnosis. 1st edition Munich, 1896; from the 7th edition in 1926/27 as bacteriology, particularly bacteriological diagnosis.
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