Hoffmann

1905 · réf. 23936 — 1905. Arb. k. GesundhAmte 22.Bd. - Berlin Verlag von Julius Springer 1905 4° 1 Bl. 668 pp. Abbildungen im Text 10 farblith. Taf. Halbleinenband d. Zt.; St.a.Tit. feines Expl. First Edition of the First Report: "On March 3 1905 Schaudinn discovered the causal organism of syphilis Spirochaeta pallida in serum obtained from a genital lesion by Erich Hoffmann 1868-1959. Schaudinn later renamed the spirochaete Treponemepallidum." Fritz Richard Schaudin 1871-1906 originally wanted to study philology including German philology in Berlin but soon turned to the natural sciences especially zoology. In 1894 he was awarded a doctorate in natural sciences; in the same year he became an assistant at the Berlin Zoological Institute and in 1898 habilitated in zoology at Berlin University where he read mainly on protozoa and general cell theory. Groundbreaking work in these fields in particular the morphology of rhizopods haliozoans and foraminifera soon made him known as an outstanding protist researcher; his important studies on the development of the coccidia Cyclospora karyolytica on malaria parasitic rhizopods and on trypanosomes and spirochaetes were carried out on a voyage to the Arctic Ocean and at the Rovigno Zoological Station. In 1904 Schaudinn was appointed head of the protozoa laboratory at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin. In the spring of 1905 in collaboration with E. Hoffmann he discovered the causative agent of syphilis Spirochaeta pallida which immortalised his name. In 1906 he died at the age of barely 35 having been honoured both as a researcher and as a man. Garrison & Morton No.2399 unknown