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Schaudinn Fritz (19.09.1871–22.06.1906)
Born in East Prussia, now the Kaliningrad region. From 1883 he studied natural sciences in Berlin, in 1893 he became a doctor of philosophy, in 1894 he researched rootstocks (Rhizopoda) in Bergen, in the autumn of the same year he was appointed as an assistant at the Zoological Institute of Berlin University. Since 1898 Assistant Professor of Zoology, in 1898, together with Römer, he explored the shores of Spitsbergen in order to study the fauna of marine animals . According to the results of this expedition, the monograph “Spitsbergen Fauna” was published. In 1901, the Imperial Health Commission appointed him head of a malaria research station in Rovinj in Istria. This was due to the interest of the German government in treating tropical diseases to support their colonial efforts in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. There his malaria research helped confirm the transmission model. In 1904 Schaudinn returned to Berlin and began to study the causes of syphilis. In 1905, in collaboration with Erich Hoffmann in Charité in Berlin, he discovered pale treponema, the causative agent of syphilis. Upon completion of these studies, Shaudin was instructed to establish a special department for the study of the simplest ones in the Imperial German Department of Public Health. Shortly before his death, he moved to Hamburg, where he studied other amoebic diseases at the Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases. In 1902 he founded the scientific journal Archiv für Protistenkunde (now Protist) , in 1905 he was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph. In 2002 an annual award in the field of medicine was established in his honor. He died in Hamburg. He was buried in Berlin, Charlottenburg district, Luisen-Friedhof II cemetery. Cape on the southern coast of the island of Abel, King Charles Land, Spitsbergen. The coordinates are 78° 58.6'N 30° 11.5'E. |
