Friedrich Neelsen

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Friedrich Carl Adolf Neelsen (* 29 March 1854 Uetersen; † April 11, 1898 Dresden ) was a German pathologist.

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Friedrich C.A. Neelsen came as a son of Hans Friedrich Neelsen deacon and his wife Bertha Sophia, born Lueders, in the vicarage in Uetersen to the world. He later visited the Rectorschool in Uetersen and went on a school in Altona. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where he met his doctorate 22 years. Later he became professor of the Institute of Pathology University of Rostock. As a senior chief physician of the widely known pathology institute of the Dresden University of Technology is Neelsen, 11 April 1898 died.

Neelsen was only 44 years old. His years of research with dangerous bacteria him were eventually even fatal. The at home and abroad elite scientists and doctors was a very menschenscheuer man who avoided the public whenever he could. But at the end of his life he maintained contact with his father town.

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Together with the neurologists Franz Ziehl Neelsen developed a method, which is used under the microscope evidence of the presence of Tuberkelbakterien can provide. Every medical student knows today "Ziehl-Neelsen staining" to the staining of these pathogens. After his breakthrough success we appointed him in the years 1884, who was just 30 years old, to associate professor.

[edit] Sources

Uetersener Nachrichten (Newspaper) (2005) (de)

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NAME Neelsen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neelsen, Friedrich Carl Adolf
SHORT DESCRIPTION German pathologist, microbiologists
DATE OF BIRTH 29 March 1854(1854-03-29)
PLACE OF BIRTH Uetersen
DATE OF DEATH 11 April 1898
PLACE OF DEATH Dresden
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