Louis-Charles Malassez

Louis -Charles Malassez ( born September 21, 1842 in Nièvre, † 1909) was a French physician and bacteriologist.

Life and work

Louis -Charles Malassez studied medicine in Paris and in 1873 received his doctorate. In 1875, he was " Directeur adjoint " at the Histological Laboratory of the Collège de France. He conducted research in many areas, particularly in hematology (blood, development of blood cells, hemoglobin content) and bacteriology.

Malassez 1878 was vice president of the Societé Anatomique de Paris and from 1879 to 1891 the Societe de Biologie. In 1894 he was admitted nationale de Médecine in the Académie.

Honors

The Malassez Hämatometer bears his name. Henri Ernest Baillon in 1889 named in his honor, which belongs to the genus Malassezia yeasts. Similarly, the rests of Malassez epithelial rests are named after him.

Writings (selection )

• ' De la sang numeration of the globules rouges you. I. Of méthodes de numeration. II De la richesse du sang en globules rouges dans les parties de l' arbre différentes circulatoire. Paris 1873
• Sur les lesions histologiques de la syphilis testiculaire. Paris 1881 - Jean Jacques Paul Reclus
• Sur l' existence d' amas épithéliaux autour de la racine chez l' homme dents of adult et a l' état ​​normal ( débris épithéliaux para dentaires ). Paris, 1885
• Sur les role of débris épithéliaux para dentaires. In: Archives of Physiology Normal et pathologique. Paris, pp. 309-340, 1885

Evidence

• Malassez, Louis Charles. In: Julius Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1901, pp. 1080-1081.
• Linß Werner, Werner LiNb, Jochen catch Hanel (ed.): Histology: cytology, general histology, microscopic anatomy. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-014032-3, p 330