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Friedrich Fülleborn (September 13, 1866 – September 9, 1933) was a physician who specialized in

tropical medicine Tropical medicine is an interdisciplinary branch of medicine that deals with health issues that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or are more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions. Physicians in this field diagnose and tr ...

and

parasitology Parasitology is the study of parasites, their host (biology), hosts, and the relationship between them. As a List of biology disciplines, biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in questio ...

. He was a native of Kulm,

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, which today is known as

Chełmno Chełmno (; older ; , formerly also ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional importance ...

, Poland. He studied medicine and

natural sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

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 (, Protection Force) was the official name of the colonial troops in the African territories of the German colonial empire from the late 19th century to 1918. Similar to other colonial armies, the consisted of volunteer European commissioned a ...

German East Africa German East Africa (GEA; ) was a German colonial empire, German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Portugu ...

. In 1898–1900 he participated in the ''Nyassa- und Kingagebirgs Expedition'' to the southern part of the colony, where he conducted

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and

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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 Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health. 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 Universi ...

(1868–1937) of the

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Museum of

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to head the " Hamburg South Seas Expedition", a scientific mission to the South Pacific. In 1930 he succeeded Bernhard Nocht (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

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, the

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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 parasitic roundworm causing the disease strongyloidiasis. Its common name in the US is threadworm. In the UK and Australia, however, the term ''threadworm'' can also refer to nematodes of t ...

'' prior to ending up in the

intestine The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The tract is the largest of the body's systems, after the cardiovascular system. T ...

. 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 (biology), family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015. The members of this Family (biology), family are best known for ...

'' Trioceros fuelleborni'', the

cichlid Cichlids () are a large, diverse, and widespread family of percomorph fish in the family Cichlidae, order Cichliformes. At least 1,760 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families, with on ...

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''. The Tanzanian Moth '' Neocoenyra fulleborni'' Thurau, 1903

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 Wentzel (née Heckmann) Foundation. * ''Filariosen des Menschen'' (1929) – Human

filariasis Filariasis is a filarial infection caused by parasitic nematodes (roundworms) spread by different vectors. They are included in the list of neglected tropical diseases. The most common type is lymphatic filariasis caused by three species o ...

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published works

Sources

* This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the

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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

* 1866 births 1933 deaths German military doctors German parasitologists People from Chełmno People from the Province of Prussia Schutztruppe personnel German tropical physicians German military personnel of World War I {{Germany-med-bio-stub