Peter Plett

Peter Plett ( born December 29, 1766 Small Rheide, † March 29, 1823 in Stakendorf ) was a German teacher in Schleswig -Holstein and pioneer of smallpox vaccination.

Life

Plett had in 1790 held a private tutor in Schönweide, where he heard of milkmaids that infection with cowpox protects against the human smallpox. In 1791 he moved to the Gutsmeierei on Hasselburg in Good Wittenberg / East Holstein. He inoculated three children of the tenant Martini with Kuhpockenlymphe and protected them so successful for human smallpox. Only five years later Edward Jenner discovered this method and became world famous.

Plett reported in 1790 and 1791 /92 on his discovery of the University of Kiel, which did not take it seriously and oppressed. It was not until 1802, after Jenner's success had penetrated into Germany, Plett was interviewed on behalf of Christoph Heinrich Pfaff from the Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel by the physician Friedrich Adolf Heinze. His report was published by Pfaff and Heinze himself and forwarded to the German firm the government in Copenhagen.

Plett visited from 1793, directed by Heinrich Müller teacher seminar in Kiel. He was supported by his superiors Pastor Johann Georg Schmidt, " the most capable Mullerian seminarians " counted him, and brought him to teach at the schools in Laboe in 1796 and in Stakendorf 1808.

Franz Hermann Hegewisch, 1809 at the University of Kiel, knew Plett reports on the successes of cowpox and their fate within the university. He recommended to the publisher of the "New Schleswig-Holstein provincial reports " Georg Peter Petersen to bring an article about multiplets discovery. Petersen asked Plett 1814 in Schönberg, published its report on 1815 and thus also confirmed Heinze's report of 1802.

Peter Plett in 1820 put into Stakendorf because of his alcoholism in retirement. Pastor Schmidt and his superior, the provost Cay William of Ahlefeldt, negotiated with the Stakendorfer citizenship from a modest pension and housing for him. He died three years later at the age of 56 years.

Honor

In 1956, the municipality Stakendorf to commemorate Peter Plett a boulder in front of the former school building, whose inscription was corrected in 2006 and supplemented by current information board.