Hermann Beitzke was a German pathologist born in Tecklenburg

Tecklenburg

Tecklenburg is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:It is located at the foothills of the Teutoburg Forest, southwest of Osnabrück.-Division of the town:...

, Westphalia

Westphalia

Westphalia is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Arnsberg, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Minden and Münster.Westphalia is roughly the region between the rivers Rhine and Weser, located north and south of the Ruhr River. No exact definition of borders can be given, because the name "Westphalia"...

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Beitzke studied medicine at several universities, earning his doctorate in 1899 from the University of Kiel

University of Kiel

The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...

. In 1900-01 he was an assistant at the institute of hygiene

Hygiene

Hygiene refers to the set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between...

 in Halle an der Saale, and afterwards worked at the pathology institutes in Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

 and Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1911 he became a professor at the University of Lausanne

University of Lausanne

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, and in 1922 relocated to the University of Graz

University of Graz

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, where he taught classes until 1941.

He specialized in pathological investigations of infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

 studies. He was co-editor of Ergebnisse der gesamten Tuberkuloseforschung, a journal involving tuberculosis research.

Selected publications

• Taschenbuch der pathologisch-histologischen Untersuchungsmethoden (Book of Pathological-histological Study Methods), 1924
• Die ambulante Diagnostik der Kinder-Tuberkulose (Outpatient Treatment Diagnostics of Childhood Tuberculosis), 1926
• Pathologische-anatomische Diagnostik an der Leich nebst Anleitung zum Sezieren (Pathological-anatomical Diagnostics of Cadavers along with Instruction on Autopsies), 1926