"Merkblatt zur Kenntnis und Beurteilung der im Felde auftretenden Nierenentzndungen" / "Leaflet on the knowledge and assessment of renal inflammation occurring in the field"
Maker
Alfred Gottschalk
Date
Circa 1918
Description
Leaflet by Alfred Gottschalk (1894-1973) Written in German.
Alfred Gottschalk (1894-1973), medical scientist born in Germany. Alfred's medical course, begun in 1912 and undertaken at the universities of Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn (M.D., 1920), was interrupted by World War I, in which he served in the medical corps.
In 1923 he was employed as an assistant to Professor Carl Neuberg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Experimental Therapy and Biochemistry, Berlin. Three years later he was appointed director of the biochemistry department at the general hospital, Szczecin, but was forced to relinquish the post in 1934 because of political upheavals in Nazi Germany. (Originally Jewish, he and his family had converted to Catholicism.) In 1939 Gottschalk left Germany with his family; they travelled to Liverpool, England, and thence to Melbourne.
From 1939 to 1959 Gottschalk worked as a biochemist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, initially on the biochemistry of yeast and from 1947 with (Sir) Macfarlane Burnet in investigating the enzymic activities of influenza virus. Having shown that the viral 'receptor-destroying enzyme' was a neuraminidase, Gottschalk began a study of glycoproteins, on which he became a world authority. He edited Glycoproteins. Their Composition, Structure and Function (Amsterdam, 1966). In 1942-48 he had also taught at the Melbourne Technical College. Naturalized in 1945, he was registered as a medical practitioner in Victoria next year. At the University of Melbourne (D.Sc., 1949), he was awarded the David Syme research prize in 1951. That year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, London, and of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute whose H. G. Smith medal he won in 1954. A fellow (1954) of the Australian Academy of Science, he served as secretary (1954-58) of its Victorian group.
On his retirement in 1959, Gottschalk moved to the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra In 1963 returned to Germany to be a guest professor and foreign scientific member (from 1968) at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research, Tübingen, where he was awarded him an honorary M.D. in 1969.
He is commemorated by the Gottschalk medal, awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science.
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