Johann Eduard Reichenow (7 July 1883 – 23 March 1960) was a German

protozoologist Protozoology is the study of protozoa, the "animal-like" (i.e., motile and heterotrophic) protists. The Protozoa are considered to be a subkingdom of Protista. They are free-living organisms that are found in almost every habitat. All humans have pr ...

. He was the son of

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

Anton Reichenow Anton Reichenow (1 August 1847 in Charlottenburg – 6 July 1941 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist. Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Natural History Museum of Berlin from 1874 to 1921. He wa ...

Biography

Reichenow was born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. He studied natural sciences in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

and

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

, and received his doctorate in 1908. After graduation he conducted research of

protozoan Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris. Histo ...

s at the Imperial Health Ministry in Berlin. From 1913 onward, he served as a government

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

Kamerun Kamerun was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon. Kamerun also included northern parts of Gabon and the Congo with western parts of the Central African Republic, southwestern p ...

, where he did studies on the biology of the

malaria Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death. S ...

pathogen. From 1916 to 1919 he conducted research at the ''

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales The National Museum of Natural Sciences ( es, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) is the national museum of natural history of Spain. It is situated in the center of Madrid, by the Paseo de la Castellana. It is managed by the Spanish National Re ...

'' in

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, and in 1921 was appointed director of the protozoology department at the '' Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten'' in

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. During the same year, he received his habilitation from the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

and in 1925 obtained the title of professor. He was an editor of the journals: ''Zeitschrift für Tropenmedizin'', the ''

Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie The ''International Journal of Medical Microbiology'', formerly the ''Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie'', is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on microbiology published by Elsevier. It was established in 1887 by Friedrich Loeffler. T ...

'' and the ''Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde''. The ''Eduard-Reichenow-Medaille'' is an award offered by the ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Protozoologie''. In 1932

Alfred Kahl Alfred Detlef Fritz Kahl (18 February 1877 – November, 1946) was a German schoolteacher who took up microscopy in mid-life and became a leading authority on ciliated protozoa. In a burst of scientific productivity that lasted just nine years, ...

named the protozoan genus ''Reichenowella'' (family Reichenowellidae) in his honor. His name is also associated with ''

Plasmodium reichenowi ''Plasmodium'' is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of ''Plasmodium'' species involve development in a blood-feeding insect host which then injects parasites into a vert ...

'', a malaria parasite of

chimpanzee The chimpanzee (''Pan troglodytes''), also known as simply the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. When its close relative th ...

s and

gorilla Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus ''Gorilla'' is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or fi ...

s, which Reichenow was the first to document. He died in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

. In 1943 Reichenow and Lilly Mudrow helped solve a long-standing mystery in malaria infections; What is the parasite doing after mosquito bite and before blood-stage infection? Together the two researchers discovered parasite growth in endothelial cells in canaries infected the parasite in the avian malaria species ''Plasmodium praecox'' (now classified as '' P. relictum'').

Personal life

Reichenow married his former student and long-term collaborator Lilly Mudrow on 11 February 1946. Together they had a daughter, born March 1948. Mudrow died suddenly on 5 March 1957, after eleven years of marriage.

Written works

In 1927–29 he published the fifth edition of

Franz Theodor Doflein Franz Theodor Doflein (5 April 1873, in Paris – 24 August 1924, in Obernigk, near today's Wrocław) was a German zoologist known for his studies of animal ecology. Biography He studied medicine and zoology at the University of Munich, where h ...

's ''Lehrbuch der Protozoenkunde; eine Darstellung der Naturgeschichte der Protozoen''. The following are a few of his other noteworthy published works: * ''Coccidien-Untersuchungen'' - Parts 1-3, 1913 (with C. Schellack) –

Coccidia Coccidia (Coccidiasina) are a subclass of microscopic, spore-forming, single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida. As obligate intracellular parasites, they must live and reproduce within an a ...

investigations. * ''Die Tätigkeit deutscher Arzte in Afrika'', 1935 – German medical activity in Africa. * ''Ostafrikanische Beobachtungen an Trypanosomiden'', 1940 – East African observations of ''

Trypanosoma ''Trypanosoma'' is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Trypanosomatidae), a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. Trypanosoma is part of the phylum Sarcomastigophora. The name is derived from the Greek ''trypano-'' (bore ...

''. * ''Morphologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte der Protozoen'', 1941 – Morphology and developmental history of protozoans. * ''Grundriß der Protozoologie für Ärzte und Tierärzte'', 1946 – Outline of protozoology for physicians and veterinarians.Google Search
(published works)

References

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