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Rudolf Abel
German bacteriologist, born December 21, 1868, Frankfurt an der Oder; died 1942.
Associated eponyms:
Abel-Löwenberg bacteria
Gram negative, immotile, encapsulated rods of the species Klebsiella.
Biography:
Rudolf Abel was conferred doctor of medicine in 1890 in Greifswald, then became assistant to Friedrich August Johannes Löffler (1852-1915), and in 1893 was habilitated as Privatdozent of hygiene. After serving subsequently as chief medical officer of Hamburg, at the police headquarters in Berlin as well as with the Prussian minsistry of culture, he was appointed professor of hygiene in Jena in 1915.
Bibliography:
- Bakteriologische Studien über Ozaenae simplex.
Centralblatt für Bacteriologie und Parasitenkunde. I, 1893, Orig. 13: 161-173.
- Taschenbuch für die bakteriologischen Praktikanten.
Würzburg 1894; 23rd edition, 1920; translated into English.
- Die Aetiologie der Ozaenae.
Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1896, 21: 89-155.
- Über einfache Hilfsmittel zur Ausführung bakteriologischer Untersuchungen.
Würzburg, 1899; 2nd edition with M. Ficker, 1908.
- Die Vorschriften zur Sicherung gesundheitsgemässer Trink- und Nutzwasserversorgung. Berlin 1911.
- Ueberblick über die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Lehre von der Infektion, Immunität und Prophylaxe.
In: Wilhelm Kolle (1868-1935) and August Paul von Wassermann (1866-1925): Handbuch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen. 2nd, expanded edition, 1912-1913, volume 1: 1-29. Also in the third edition, 1929.
- Die gesundheitlich wichtigen Verhältnisse und Einrichtungen der deutschen Seebadeorte (mit Ausnahme von mecklenburgischen Seebäder). Published by Rudolf Abel. Berlin, 1913. XVI + 282 pages. A supplement to Jahrgang 1913 of Vierteljahrsschrift für gerichtliche Medizin und öffentliches Sanitätswesen, Berlin.
- Handbuch der praktischen Hygiene. Jena 1913.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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