Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (2 January 1867, Ovenstädt – 24 December 1949, Hilversum) was a German pathologist and epidemiologist who worked mainly in the Dutch East India colonies and specialized in the study of malaria. Schüffner received an MD from Leipzig and was made honorary MD by Amsterdam University in 1912. He identified the rodent reservoir of Leptospirosis.
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Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner
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- 1867 · Ovenstädt.
- Died
- 1949 · Hilversum.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- professor · university teacher · photographer
- Languages
- German
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Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (2 January 1867, Ovenstädt – 24 December 1949, Hilversum) was a German pathologist and epidemiologist who worked mainly in the Dutch East India colonies and specialized in the study of malaria. Schüffner received an MD from Leipzig and was made honorary MD by Amsterdam University in 1912. He identified the rodent reservoir of Leptospirosis.
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He was a medical officer from 1897 in the Semembah Tobacco estate in eastern Sumatra and until 1923 he worked in the Dutch colonies in Java and Indonesia studying malaria. He worked on the healthcare of plantation workers in Senembah Maatschappij, Deli, North Sumatra. He demonstrated malaria control through management of hygiene. He recorded the characteristic red stippling found in red blood cells of patients infected by tertian malaria (Plasmodium vivax) which are now known as Schüffner's dots. From 1916 he was a public health advisor to the colonial government of the Dutch East India Company. He was elected fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1926 and Leopoldina in 1935.
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as professor, university teacher and photographer.
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1867
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner was born on 1 January 1867.
1949
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner died on 24 December 1949.
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- 1.Antonius Franciscus Irawan Imam. Spezies-Assanierung. Die Entwicklung natürlicher Methoden der Malariabekämpfung in Niederländisch-Indien (1913-1938) und ihre mögliche Bedeutung für aktuelle Probleme der Malariabekämpfung. 2003.
- 2.Alfons Labisch. Species sanitation of malaria in the Netherlands East Indies (1913–1942) – an example of applied medical history?. Michael Quarterly 3/10. 2010.
- 3.Therapie der Malaria. 2011.
- 4.Past Members: W.A.P. Schüffner.
- 5.Friedrich Müller, Otto Seifert: Taschenbuch der medizinisch-klinischen Diagnostik. J. F. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1886; 13. Auflage, Wiesbaden 1909 (Archive); 50. Auflage 1941; von 1942 (55. Auflage) bis 1966 (69. Auflage) hrsg. von Hans Kress von Kressenstein, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1966, S. IV f. (Aus dem Vorwort Friedrich Müllers zur 49 bis 54. Auflage. München, Oktober 1941).
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Career and activity. He was employed by University of Amsterdam. He belonged to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He worked at Leipzig.
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