Fritz Schaudinn

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Fritz Schaudinn
Fritz Schaudinn
Fritz Schaudinn
Born Sept 19, 1871
Röseningken, East Prussia
Died 22 June 1906
Hamburg
Nationality Germany
Fields zoologist
Known for syphilis

Fritz Richard Schaudinn (Sept 19, 1871 – 22 June 1906) was a German zoologist

Born in Röseningken, East Prussia, he co-discovered, with Erich Hoffmann in 1905, the causative agent of syphilis, Spirochaeta pallida (also known as Treponema pallidum). Work was carried out at the Berlin Charité Clinic.

Among Schaudinn's other contributions to medicine include his work in the field of amoebic dysentery and sleeping sickness, his confirmation of the work of Sir Ronald Ross and Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854-1925) in the field of malaria research. He also demonstrated that human hookworm infection is contracted through the skin of the feet. He made noted contributions to zoology and was one of the developers of protozoology as an experimental science. Schaudinn was a graduate in zoology of the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. Since 2002 an annual medical prize has been awarded in his name.

Schaudinn died during his journey back to Germany from an International Medicine Meeting in Lisbon, when he underwent an urgent surgery aboard due to gastrointestinal amebian abscesses. Such amebian infection had probably been voluntarily acquired when he did research on amebas. Schaudinn was a little under 35 years of age when he died in Hamburg.

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