Zoologist. Co-discoverer (with Erich Hoffman) of the syphilis causing bacterium Treponema pallidum. He studied zoology at the University of Berlin with an emphasis on protazoa. His dissertation topic was the reproduction of Foraminifera amoeboids. He received his second doctorate in 1894 and his promotion to Habilitation rank followed in 1898. He then became an Assistant Professor at the Zoological Institute of the University of Berlin. He took part in an Arctic expedition in the same year, which led to the publishing of "Fauna Arctica", a comprehensive work on the Arctic animal kingdom. In 1901, he was sent by the Imperial Health Commission to head up the Malarial Research Station Rovigno in Istria. This was due to the interest in the German government in treating tropical diseases to support their colonial efforts in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. While there, his researches into malaria helped to confirm the transmission model. In 1904, he returned to Berlin and began in 1905 to study the causes of syphilis. He was able to confirm Treponema pallidum as the agent causing the disease and later researched other amoebal diseases, which may have led to his death the next year from complications of an emergency operation for an intestinal amebian abcess. Shortly before his death, he moved to the Hamburger Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases. He founded the scientific journal "Archiv für Protistenkunde" (now "Protist") in 1902 and received the Franz-Joseph Order's Officer's Cross in 1905. In 2002 an annual prize in medicine in his name has been awarded.
Zoologist. Co-discoverer (with Erich Hoffman) of the syphilis causing bacterium Treponema pallidum. He studied zoology at the University of Berlin with an emphasis on protazoa. His dissertation topic was the reproduction of Foraminifera amoeboids. He received his second doctorate in 1894 and his promotion to Habilitation rank followed in 1898. He then became an Assistant Professor at the Zoological Institute of the University of Berlin. He took part in an Arctic expedition in the same year, which led to the publishing of "Fauna Arctica", a comprehensive work on the Arctic animal kingdom. In 1901, he was sent by the Imperial Health Commission to head up the Malarial Research Station Rovigno in Istria. This was due to the interest in the German government in treating tropical diseases to support their colonial efforts in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. While there, his researches into malaria helped to confirm the transmission model. In 1904, he returned to Berlin and began in 1905 to study the causes of syphilis. He was able to confirm Treponema pallidum as the agent causing the disease and later researched other amoebal diseases, which may have led to his death the next year from complications of an emergency operation for an intestinal amebian abcess. Shortly before his death, he moved to the Hamburger Institute for Ship and Tropical Diseases. He founded the scientific journal "Archiv für Protistenkunde" (now "Protist") in 1902 and received the Franz-Joseph Order's Officer's Cross in 1905. In 2002 an annual prize in medicine in his name has been awarded.
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