Hans Otto Friedrich Schlossberger (born 22 September 1887 in
Alpirsbach
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Because of the local brewery “Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu“, the monastery ...
, died 27 January 1960 in
Stuttgart) was a German physician, who was known for his research in
immunology
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,
medical microbiology
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,
epidemiology
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It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evide ...
and
antimicrobial chemotherapy, especially on
syphilis,
typhus
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,
gas gangrene
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,
diphtheria
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,
erysipeloid of Rosenbach
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,
tuberculosis
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,
malaria
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and
leptospirosis. He was one of the leading immunologists and bacteriologists of Germany during his lifetime, and was a student and collaborator of the Nobel laureates
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...
and
Emil von Behring
Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...
, two of the principal founders of the field of immunology.
From 1946 to 1955, he was Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the
Goethe University Frankfurt, and also served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1952–1953. He edited the journal ''
Medical Microbiology and Immunology'' and the influential book ''
Experimental Bacteriology''.
Career
He studied medicine at the
University of Tübingen
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, the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the
University of Strasbourg
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The French university traces its history to the ea ...
, and obtained his doctorate in medicine at Tübingen in 1913 with the dissertation ''Beiträge zur Serodiagnose der Syphilis mittels der Wassermannschen Reaktion''. He worked as an
intern
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for the Nobel laureate
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...
at the
Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy while preparing his dissertation from 1912. After working at the
German Hospital in
London
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, he was employed as
scientific assistant of the Nobel laureate
Emil von Behring
Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...
at the
University of Marburg
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Center of Hygiene. He served as a
military physician in the
Army Medical Service during the
First World War
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. From 1917 to 1929, he worked at the National Institute for Experimental Therapy (now the
Paul Ehrlich Institute). In 1929, he joined the Federal Health Bureau (''Reichsgesundheitsamt'') as a government councillor and subsequently as a senior government councillor. From 1935 to 1941, he was director of one of the departments at the
Robert Koch Institute
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.
He was Professor of Hygiene and Director of the Institute of Hygiene at the
University of Jena
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The un ...
from 1941. From 1946 to 1955, he held the chair in medical microbiology and infection control at the
Goethe University Frankfurt and was Director of its Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control (''Hygiene-Institut''). He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1952–1953. He was editor-in-chief of ''
Medical Microbiology and Immunology'', a journal founded by
Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the bacteri ...
. He was also editor of the most recent editions of the influential book ''
Experimental Bacteriology''.
He was a member of the
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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, in the section Microbiology and Immunology.
Personal life
He was a son of the physician and
numismatist
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Hans Schlossberger, Sr. (1855–1927), a grandson of the noted biochemist
Julius Eugen Schlossberger
Julius Eugen Schlossberger (31 May 1819, in Stuttgart – 9 July 1860, in Tübingen), also spelled Julius Eugen Schloßberger, was a German physician and biochemist. He was a student of Justus von Liebig and was one of the leading physiological ...
(one of the disciples of
Justus von Liebig) and a descendant of burgomaster of
Esslingen Georg Andreas Schlossberger (1666–1737). In 1918, he married Gertrud Benger, and they had three children.
["Schlossberger, Hans," in '' Wer ist wer?'', Vol. 13, 1958, p. 1120]
Selected works
* ''Beiträge zur Serodiagnose der Syphilis mittels der Wassermannschen Reaktion'', Fischer, Jena 1913.
* ''Die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und praktischen Ergebnisse der Chemotherapie der Infektionskrankheiten'', Fischers med. Buchh., Berlin 1925
* ''Handbuch der Chemotherapie'' (2 vols. 1932 and 1934, with Viktor Fischl)
* ''Die Bekämpfung der epidemischen Poliomyelitis mit Rekonvaleszentenserum'', Behringwerke, I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G., Leverkusen 1935 (with Richard Bieling, Hellmut Eckhardt)
* ''Chaulmoograöl : Geschichte, Herkunft, Zusammensetzung, Pharmakologie, Chemotherapie'', Springer, Berlin 1938.
* ''Kriegsseuchen : Historischer Überblick über ihr Auftreten u. ihre Bekämpfung'', Fischer, Jena 1945.
*
Wilhelm Kolle Wilhelm Kolle (born 2 November 1868 in Lerbach near Osterode am Harz, died 10 May 1935) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist. He served as the second director of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy, succeeding its founder, the Nobel ...
,
Heinrich Hetsch, Hans Schlossberger, et al., ''
Experimentelle Bakteriologie und Infektionskrankheiten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Immunitätslehre'', 10th significantly revised edition, Munich,
Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1952
References
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German immunologists
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Robert Koch Institute people
University of Jena faculty
Goethe University Frankfurt faculty
German military doctors
German military officers
People from Freudenstadt (district)
Scientists from Frankfurt
University of Tübingen alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
University of Strasbourg alumni
1887 births
1960 deaths