Ernst Friedberger

Ernst Freidberger

Ernst Friedberger (May 17, 1875 - January 25, 1932) was a German immunologist and hygienist who was a native of Giessen.

In 1899 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Giessen, and in 1901 became an assistant at the University of Konigsberg, where in 1903 he was habilitated as a lecturer in hygiene. In 1908 he attained the directorship of experimental therapy at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Berlin. From 1915 to 1926 he was professor of hygiene at the University of Greifswald, and afterwards director of the Preußischen Forschungsinstituts für Hygiene und Immunitätslehre (Research Institute of Hygiene and Immunology) in Berlin-Dahlem.

Friedberger is remembered for his investigations of anaphylaxis, and his development of a toxic principle involving mammalian serum that is treated with aggregated immunoglobulins. He coined the term "anaphylatoxin" to describe this hypothetical poison when he noticed that treated animals displayed an anaphylactoid shock reaction.

Written works

• Über Kriegsseuchen einst und jetzt, ihre Bekämpfung und Verhütung. 1917
• Zur Entwicklung der Hygiene im Weltkrieg, 1919 -- Development of hygiene during the World War.
• Untersuchungen über Wohnungsverhältnisse, insbes. über Kleinwohnungen und deren Mieter in Greifswald, 1923 -- Studies of housing conditions in Greifswald.
• Diphtherieepidemien der letzten Jahre, das Heilserum und die Schutzimpfung, 1931 -- Diphtheria epidemics in recent years, the serum and the vaccination.

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
• The Nature of Anaphylatoxin