Friedrich Fülleborn
Friedrich Fülleborn (September 13, 1866 – September 9, 1933) was a physician who specialized in tropical medicine and parasitology. He was a native of Kulm, West Prussia, which today is known as Chełmno, Poland.
He studied medicine and
In 1901 he became director of the Department of Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the Hamburg Institute for Marine and Tropical Diseases. In 1908 he was appointed by Georg Thilenius (1868–1937) of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology 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
While working with dogs in Hamburg, he described "
Legacy
Fülleborn is commemorated in the scientific name of a number of species including the
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 Heckmann (née Wentzel) Foundation.
- Filariosen des Menschen (1929) – Human filariasis.[7]
Sources
- This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0, p 123-125
- Dorlands Medical Dictionary (definition of eponym)
References
- ^ a b Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Band I, S. 670 biography
- ^ The Geographical Journal, Volume 30 German Nyasa and Rovuma Lands
- PMID 12364371.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Fuelleborn", p. 95).
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (December 4, 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ Sibylle Johnson. "Fülleborn's or Fuelleborn's Longclaw". Beauty of Birds. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ OCLC Classify published works
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