Robert von Ostertag

Robert von Ostertag ( born March 24, 1864 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, † October 7, 1940 in Tübingen ) was a German veterinarian and is considered the " father of meat inspection ".

Life

From Ostertag studied medicine in Berlin and veterinary medicine in Stuttgart, then he was appointed professor of hygiene at the (1912 repealed ) Veterinary University of Stuttgart ( 1891-1892 ) and at the College of Veterinary Medicine (now Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Freie Universität ) in Berlin (1892 -1907 ).

Two research trips to the study of sheep and cattle diseases led him in 1907 and 1913 to Africa. In the 1890s, he initiated an extensive program of meat inspection in Berlin, decreased sharply in the cases of tuberculosis in cattle in humans in consequence. From Ostertag wrote the influential textbook for meat inspectors. Together with the pathologist Otto Lubarsch 1896 he founded the magazine results of general pathology and pathological anatomy of humans and animals.

Developed by Robert von Ostertag in 1899 and named after him program to combat bovine tuberculosis ( the open suffering from tuberculosis animals should be recorded, but only the bacteria secreting killed. Cattle stocks of a court should be examined annually clinically, but should only be tuberculosis of apparent a three-time bacteriological examination of Gemelkes follow ) was introduced in Germany and in Switzerland. In Scandinavia, however, a more rigorous method developed by the Danes Bernhard Bang was applied, which was only adopted in the 1950s in German-speaking countries.

For his services he Cothenius 1937, the Medal of the Leopoldina was awarded, in which he had been received in 1929 as a member. The eagle shield of the German Empire, he received on 20 April 1939.

In the Berlin district of Steglitz -Zehlendorf in Schwäbisch Gmünd and streets are named after him. The Federal Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons gives a Robert Ostertag Plaque. The Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the former Federal Health Office, responsible for hygiene of animal food, animal diseases and residue research has been dedicated to him just by name.

His home town of Schwäbisch Gmünd awarded him in 1929, " for his 65th birthday in recognition of his outstanding personality and his significant scientific activity to a veterinarian field," the honorary citizenship.

Robert von Ostertag was a member of the Corps Suevia Stuttgart in Rudolstädter Senior Convent ( risen in today's Corps Suevo - Guestphalia Munich). The neuropathologist and professor Berthold Ostertag was his son.