Erich Hoffmann
Erich Hoffmann (25 April 1868 – 8 May 1959) was a German dermatologist.
Biography
A native of Witzmitz, Pomerania, he studied medicine at the Berlin Military Academy, and was later a professor at the Universities of Halle and Bonn.
Hoffmann is remembered for his research performed with zoologist Fritz Schaudinn (1871–1906) at the Charité Clinic in Berlin. In 1905 Schaudinn and Hoffmann discovered the bacterium that was responsible for syphilis, a spiral-shaped spirochete called Treponema pallidum. The organism was removed from a papula in the vulva of a patient with secondary syphilis. The two doctors documented their findings in a treatise called Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillome.[1]
Hoffmann left Germany during the era of National Socialism, but returned to Bonn after the war and established a laboratory. In the late 1940s he published two books about his life in medicine, titled "Wollen und Schaffen" and "Ringen um Vollendung".
References
- ↑ Fritz Richard Schaudinn, Erich Hoffmann: Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillomen. Arbeiten aus dem kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamtes (Berlin), vol. 22, pp. 527–534, 1905.
External links
- Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia The Discovery of Treponema pallidum
- Articles with short description
- 1868 births
- 1959 deaths
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- German dermatologists
- German venereologists
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg faculty
- People from Gryfice County
- People from the Province of Pomerania
- Physicians of the Charité
- University of Bonn faculty