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Medicine, microbiology. Institutions. University of Breslau. Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (22 January 1855, Schweidnitz – 30 July 1916, Breslau) was a German physician who discovered the causative agent ( pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour ( Neisseria gonorrhoeae ).
- German
- 30 July 1916 (aged 61), Breslau
- 22 January 1855, Schweidnitz
- Discovering of N. gonorrhoeae
Jan 6, 2015 · Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae). Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now ?widnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser.
This article provides a brief biography of Albert Neisser, focusing on his discoveries in the area of infectious diseases, the so-called Neisser-Hansen controversy, and the situation leading to changes in defining bioethics.
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- Youth and Education
- First Medical Research
- The Syphilis Clinical Trials and Scandal
- Later Years
Albert Neisser was born the son of the Jewish physician Moritz Neisser (1820-1896), Privy Councillor in Breslau and Charlottenbrunn, and Louise Lossen (1819-1855), who came from an entrepreneurial family in Berlin. Since his mother died before he was one year old, Neisser was raised by his stepmother. After he had attended the elementary school in ...
Neisser found a position as assistant of the dermatologist Oskar Simon. He focused on sexually transmitted diseases and leprosy. In that period, Albert Neisser studied and obtained experimental evidence about the pathogen for gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Next to his achievement on gonorrhea, Albert Neisser was also the co-discoverer of the cau...
During the late 1890s, Neisser published clinical trials on serum therapy in patients with syphilis which later became a large scandal. Neisser injected cell free serum from patients with syphilis into patients who were admitted for other medical conditions. However, the patients were not informed about the experiment or asked for their consent. Wh...
Still, Albert Neisser had an increasing reputation and promoted vigorously preventive and educational measures to the public in terms of public health. Further, Neisser promoted better sanitary control of prostitutes to deal with venereal diseases. Albert Neisser was one of the founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskran...
Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, MD (1855-1916), was a Prussian dermatologist and bacteriologist known for both his discoveries and controversies. His strict physician father would often tell Albert to “work” whenever they entered the same room.
- Kishore L Jayakumar, Jules B Lipoff
- 2017
Albert Ludwig Siegmund Neisser, MD (1855-1916), was a German Professor and doctor of medicine, and director of the teaching hospital of dermatology in Breslau. In 1879 he became the first to apply aniline dyes to the staining of M. leprae, thus adding to the evidence of its etiologic role in leprosy.
Albert Ludwig Neisser* is remembered mainly as the discoverer of the etiologic agent of gonorrhea and because he is memorialized eponymically with the bacterial genus to which it belongs. The generic name “Neisseria” was already proposed in 1885 by V. Trevisan, an Italian bacteriologist (1), but it was not adopted generally until the 1930s.
