Johann Gottfried Bremser

Johann Gottfried Bremser (19 August 1767 in Wertheim am Main – 21 August 1827 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian parasitologist and hygienist.

Johann Gottfried Bremser (lithograph, ca. 1820)

In 1796 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Jena, and following graduation, took a study tour through Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In 1797 he settled in Vienna as a physician.[1] He developed an interest in the field of helminthology, and by way of a request from Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers, director of the Naturalienkabinette in Vienna, he started a helminth collection in around 1806, which eventually became one of the better parasitic worm collections in the world.[2][3] In 1815 he conducted scientific research in Paris. In 1825 he succumbed to illness, and two years later died in Vienna at the age of 60.[4]

He was at the forefront of medical vaccinations in Vienna, and argued the case for compulsory cowpox vaccinations for all citizens.[2]

Selected works
  • Über die Kuhpocken, 1801 – (On cowpox).
  • Über lebende Würmer im lebenden Menschen, 1819 (On living worms in living humans); later translated into French and published as Traité zoologique et physiologique sur les vers intestinaux de l'homme, 1824.
  • Icones helminthum systema Rudolphii entozoologicum illustrantes, 1824.[5]
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References
  1. Bremser, Johann Gottfried at Neue Deutsche Biographie
  2. Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) as a protagonist of the cowpox vaccine Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2014 Apr;126 Suppl 1:S3-10. doi: 10.1007/s00508-013-0445-9. Epub 2013 Nov 19.
  3. BLKÖ:Bremser, Johann Gottfried Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich.
  4. ADB:Bremser, Johann Gottfried In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, S. 305.
  5. Most widely held works by Johann Gottfried Bremser OCLC WorldCat
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