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Apr 5, 2024 · Fritz Schaudinn was a German zoologist who, with the dermatologist Erich Hoffmann, in 1905 discovered the causal organism of syphilis, Spirochaeta pallida, later called Treponema pallidum. He is known for his work in the development of protozoology as an experimental science.
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Dec 23, 2016 · Schaudinn, Fritz (1871–1906) Fritz Richard Schaudinn was a German zoologist, who contributed several well-known and important insights in the world of free-living and parasitic protozoans, as well as on bacteria.
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- The Origin of Syphilis
- A Brief Etymology
- Fritz Schaudinn – Youth and Education
- Fighting Malaria
- Flagged Protozoe
- Effective Treatment
- Death
The origin of syphilis is not very clear, but it is assumed that it was present in the Americas before European contact. Many historical scientists assume, that the illness was carried to Europe by the returning crewmen from Christopher Columbus‘s voyage. Others dispute, that syphilis was already present in Europe by then but stayed unrecognized un...
The word syphilis first appeared in 1530 in the title of a poem by the Veronese physician Girolamo Fracastoro (1483-1553), called Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus (Syphilis, or the French disease) which tells the story of the shepherd Syphilus, who was punished for blasphemy with a new disease, syphilis. The name Syphilus is the Latinized form of the...
Born in Röseningken, East Prussia, Schaudinn visited the grammar schools in Insterburg and Gumbinnen. After one year he gave up his intention to study philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Berlin and turned to the natural sciences, especially zoology, in 1890. Already during his studies, zoologist Franz Eilhard Schulze inspired Schaudin...
About four years later, the young scientist took part in an expedition to the Arctic Ocean along with Fritz Römer. As a result of the scientific expedition, Schaudinn published the work ‘Fauna Arctica‘, a detailed description of the Arctic wildlife. After this achievement, Schaudinn was announced the director of the Malaria research station in Rovi...
In 1905, now a highly respected scientist, Schaudinn was commissioned to examine the findings of zoologist John Siegel, as Schaudinn a student of Schulze, who reported that he identified a flagged protozoe as the pathogen of syphilis, which he called Cytorhyctes luis. He had already described similar pathogens for smallpox, foot-and-mouth disease a...
The first effective treatment for syphilis was developed in 1910 by the physician and scientist Paul Ehrlich. In addition, Schaudinn found that Entamoeba histolyticais the pathogen of amoeba dysentery, and also studied the non-hazardous intestinal flora. Shortly before his untimely death he gave up his position at the Imperial Health Office and cha...
Schaudinn died during his journey back to Germany from an International Medicine Meeting in Lisbon, when he underwent an urgent surgery aboard due to gastrointestinal amebian abscesses. Such amebian infection had probably been voluntarily acquired when he did research on amoebas. Schaudinn was a little under 35 years of age when he died in Hamburg ...
views 3,241,826 updated. Fritz Schaudinn (frĬts shou´dĬn), 1871–1906, German zoologist. He confirmed the work of Sir Ronald Ross and G. B. Grassi on malaria, investigated amoebic dysentery, and in his research on protozoa discovered (1905) with Erich Hoffmann the Treponema pallidum (or Spirochaeta pallida) of syphilis.
Dec 30, 2019 · Even as young Schaudinn was born the last echoes of the Franco-German war were but dying away, and the friends and relatives of the Schaudinn family were returning to their homes in East Prussia from the distant service with the national army; but peace and tranquillity had come at last, and the boy was able to obtain an excellent general ...
Engels was (1842–44) a managerial apprentice in a Manchester, England, cotton mill co-owned by his father. He reluctantly returned to the business (1850) to support himself and his intellectual collaborator, Karl Marx. Having become a partner in the firm, Engels sold his interest in 1869, which enabled him to live comfortably until his death.
