Friedrich Fülleborn (September 13, 1866 – September 9, 1933) was a physician who specialized in
tropical medicine and
parasitology
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. He was a native of
Kulm,
West Prussia
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, which today is known as
Chełmno
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Due to its regional importan ...
, Poland.
He studied medicine and
natural sciences
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in Berlin, where one of his instructors was
Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer (1835–1921). From 1896 onward, he was a military physician assigned to the
Schutztruppe
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in
German East Africa
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. In 1898–1900 he participated in the ''Nyassa- und Kingagebirgs Expedition'' to the southern part of the colony, where he conducted
anthropological
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and
ethnographic
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research.
[Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 670]
biography
In 1901 he became director of the Department of Tropical
Hygiene
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases." Personal hygiene refer ...
and Tropical Medicine at the
Hamburg Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases. In 1908 he was appointed by
Georg Thilenius
Georg Christian Thilenius (4 October 1868 – 28 December 1937) was a German physician and anthropologist who was a native of Soden am Taunus.
He studied medicine in Bonn and Berlin, and in 1896 was habilitated as an anatomist at the University ...
(1868–1937) of the
Hamburg
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Museum of
Ethnology
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to head the "
Hamburg South Seas Expedition", a scientific mission to the South Pacific. In 1930 he succeeded
Bernhard Nocht
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* Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 19 ...
(1857–1945) as director of the Hamburg Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases, a position he maintained until his death in 1933.
During his career he took several tropical medical study trips to
India
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,
East Asia
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, the
West Indies
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, etc. He is especially known for his
filarian research and as an instructor of tropical medicine classes in Hamburg.
[
While working with dogs in Hamburg, he described " autoinfection" and discovered the migratory route taken by the parasite '']Strongyloides stercoralis
''Strongyloides stercoralis'' is a human pathogenic parasitism, parasitic nematode, roundworm causing the disease strongyloidiasis. Its common name in the US is threadworm. In the UK and Australia, however, the term ''threadworm'' can also refe ...
'' prior to ending up in the intestine
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. The term "Fülleborn's method" is a procedure for examining parasitic ova in faecal matter.
Legacy
Fülleborn is commemorated in the scientific name of a number of species including the chameleon
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, bein ...
'' Trioceros fuelleborni'', the cichlid
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...
fish '' Labeotropheus fuelleborni'', and the bird Fülleborn's longclaw
Fülleborn's longclaw (''Macronyx fuelleborni'') or Fuelleborn's longclaw, is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae. It is found in damp grassy habitats in south-central Africa.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies of Fülleborn's longclaw are recogni ...
''Macronyx fuelleborni''.
Published works
* ''Das deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-gebiet, land und leute, nebst bemerkungen über die Schire-Länder. : Mit benutzung von ergebnissen der Njassa- und Kingagebirgs-expedition der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-stiftung'' (1906) – The German Nyassa and Ruwuma region, the country and its people; along with remarks on the Shire-regions: written with the use of results from the Nyassa and Kinga Mountains expedition of the Hermann and Elise Heckmann (née Wentzel) Foundation.
* ''Filariosen des Menschen'' (1929) – Human filariasis
Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type. These are spread by blood-feeding insects such as black flies and mosquitoes. They belong to the group of diseases called helminthiases.
These ...
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published works
Sources
* This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the
German Wikipedia
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, whose sources include: Stefan Wulf: Fülleborn, Friedrich. In: Hamburgische Biography, Volume 5, Wallenstein, Göttingen 2010 , p 123-125
Dorlands Medical Dictionary(definition of eponym)
References
External links
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1866 births
1933 deaths
German military doctors
German parasitologists
People from Chełmno
People from the Province of Prussia
Schutztruppe personnel
German tropical physicians
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