You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed postcard of Doctors, hygienists and university lecturers Karl Kißkalt (1875-1962).
Written on one postcardwith a portrait of the hygienist Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901). Karl Kißkalt lived on Pettenkoferstrasse in Munich at the time; he was also from 1929 Editor of the “Archive for Hygiene and Bacteriology” founded by Max von Pettenkofer.
PostmarkMunich, April 6, 1947 (year somewhat difficult to read).
Aimed at the Historians, journalists and politicians Prof. Walter Goetz (1867-1958) in Gräfelfing.
Transcription: "Dear colleague! Thank you very much for your message and what you sent. I'm trying to get memories from Rubner's daughters from his time in Munich. With best regards, Kisskalt."
Note: This refers to the doctor, physiologist and hygienist Max Rubner (1854-1932), who completed his habilitation in Munich in 1883 and worked under Karl Kißkalt at the Charité around 1910.
Postcard made from strong photo paper.
Format: 14.7x10.5cm.
Condition: Card bent and slightly stained, corners bumped. Please also note the pictures!
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About Karl Kißkalt, Walter Goetz, Max Rubner and Max von Pettenkofer (source: wikipedia):
Karl Kißkalt (*30. December 1875 in Würzburg; † 2. March 1962 in Munich) was a German doctor, hygienist and university professor.
Life: Karl Kißkalt studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.[1] After completing his studies, he was an assistant at the Hygiene Institute in Würzburg under Karl Bernhard Lehmann from 1899 to 1901. He then went to Georg Gaffky at the Hessian Ludwig University, where he completed his habilitation in 1903. After Gaffky was appointed to the Robert Koch Institute in 1904, he worked for Hermann Kossel until 1906. He moved to Max Rubner at the Charité and stayed there with his successor Carl Flügge until he was appointed professor of hygiene at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1912. In 1917 he accepted a position at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, in 1924 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn and in 1925 at the University of Munich. In 1950 he retired. He was dean of the medical faculty in Königsberg, Kiel and Munich. In the academic year 1921/22 he was rector of the University of Kiel.
He belonged to the Society for Racial Hygiene and was, among other things, co-editor of the Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift. He joined the NSDAP in 1937. In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of Karl Brandt, the representative for health care. He retired in 1950.
Kißkalt's work dealt with bacteriology as well as environmental and social hygiene. From 1929 he was editor of the archive for hygiene and bacteriology founded by Max von Pettenkofer.
His brother was the general director of Munich Re, Wilhelm Kißkalt.
Awards
Appointment to the Privy Medical Council
Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Honorary member of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin
Honorary member of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
Honorary member of the Munich Medical Association
1955: Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
Honorary Senator of the University of Kiel
Walter Wilhelm Goetz (*11. November 1867 in Lindenau near Leipzig; † 30. October 1958 in Adelholzen in Upper Bavaria and buried in Gräfelfing near Munich) was a German historian, journalist and politician (DDP).
Life: The son of the doctor and leader of the German gymnastics movement Ferdinand Goetz studied at the humanistic Thomasschule in Leipzig until 1886. He then studied law at the University of Freiburg, art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and economics with Lujo Brentano at the University of Leipzig. In Munich he joined the Munichia gymnastics club in the Coburg Convent. Together with Konrad Bahr, he wrote the “Munichen History”, which describes the development of the Munichia gymnastics club from its founding until the 1920s.[1] In 1890 he received his doctorate in history from Wilhelm Maurenbrecher. phil. received his doctorate with the dissertation The Election of Maximilian II. to the German king in 1562. In 1895 he completed his habilitation in general history under Karl Lamprecht. After temporarily continuing his studies for his habilitation on Duke Albrecht V in Leipzig in the first decade of his reign, he completed his habilitation in Munich in 1901. From 1895 to 1901 he worked as a private lecturer in history at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
He married the daughter of the Munich history professor Moriz Ritter. Also important for Goetz were acquaintances such as those with the historian Karl Brandi or with Luise von Druffel, in whose house he lived (see August von Druffel). In 1905 he became a full professor at the University of Tübingen (successor to Georg von Below), in 1913 at the University of Strasbourg (successor to Harry Bresslau) and in 1915 for cultural and universal history in Leipzig, where he succeeded Karl Lamprecht in the institute he founded for cultural and universal history until he left the academic teaching staff. He was also dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1929/30.
Goetz was politically active in the National Social Association around Friedrich Naumann. He worked for the magazine Die Hilfe and was friends with Theodor Heuss and Ludwig Curtius. From 1920 to 1928 he was a member of the Reichstag as a member of the German Democratic Party. His support for the republic was resented by those in power during the National Socialist era. Goetz did not break off his contacts with Jewish colleagues - including his students Alfred von Martin and Hans Baron - and instead supported them in accordance with his humanistic outlook. In 1933, after he had already applied for retirement for reasons of age, he was forced to retire due to the law to restore the professional civil service and a reduction in his pension, which he appealed against. Six months later, the decision was overturned and Goetz was put into regular retirement with full pay. After the war he became an adjunct professor and, from 1952, an honorary professor in Munich. From 1946 to 1951 he was also President of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (a member since 1904). In the last years of his life, Goetz occupied himself with the conception of the New German Biography, the first volumes of which were published shortly before his death.
Goetz was involved in the preparation of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. From 1927 to 1949 he was chairman of the German Dante Society. He had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich since 1947. He had also been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1930. Here he was able to continue and publish his studies on the Italian Renaissance. His son Helmut Goetz, born in 1920, also became a historian and worked for many years at the German Historical Institute in Rome.
In addition to his academic career, Goetz was also a reserve officer in the Bavarian Army. He initially served as a one-year volunteer in the 1st. Infantry Regiment “König” and was promoted to major in 1910. During the First World War he became a battalion commander and was deployed on the Western Front. Nevertheless, in 1917 he advocated for a negotiated peace with State Secretary Richard von Kühlmann.
Research: Goetz achieved his most important research results in the history of the Counter-Reformation, modern history and the Italian Renaissance. The study of Italian cities in the Middle Ages as well as Dante Alighieri and Francis of Assisi was of particular importance to him. His conception of the age is essentially determined by his cultural-historical inclinations and by Jacob Burckhardt. Goetz has also worked on art historical topics of the Italian Renaissance. In addition to Burckhardt, there is also an influence here through studying with Anton Springer in Leipzig. The aftereffects of Georg Voigt are less pronounced for Goetz, although he was well aware of its importance. Lamprecht also influenced him, although Goetz's position differs significantly from his view of cultural history. There have been disputes here in academic and institutional contexts, not least with the cultural historian Georg Steinhausen over his view of history.
With Goetz's retirement, a long-standing engagement with Italian Renaissance humanism in Leipzig came to an end, which had begun with Voigt and to which Alfred Doren also contributed with his contributions to the economic history of the time. The area never again gained comparable importance in Leipzig.
In his studies of Francis of Assisi and Dante, Goetz was groundbreaking in the motifs that clearly distinguish the era of the Renaissance from that of the Middle Ages. But it was clear to him that many of the things that happened in the 14th century Century that emerged with a return to antiquity were already established in the Middle Ages. Francis of Assisi was also an important subject of his collaboration with the theologian and historian Paul Sabatier, with whom he maintained extensive correspondence over many years.
Herbert Grundmann is one of Goetz's most important students in the field of medieval studies.
But Goetz also remained committed to researching the history of the Reformation, especially in Bavaria. He continued to publish on Albrecht V of Bavaria.
In his capacity as director of the Leipzig Institute for Cultural and Universal History, Goetz has published the journal Archive for Cultural History, founded by Georg Steinhausen, since 1912. In the course of coming to terms with the history of the First World War, Walter Goetz also gave the letters to Kaiser Wilhelm II that had been found in Russia in 1920. to Tsar Nicholas II. out of here.
With Karl Brandi, Goetz continued the publication of the contributions to imperial history that had begun under August von Druffel. to the Landsberger Bund. Goetz was also able to access Maurenbrecher's copies and excerpts that he made in Simancas. had made and which were handed over to Goetz and the then director of the Leipzig University Library, Julius Benno Hilliger, by his widow Mary Maurenbrecher. A large part of the document copies is preserved in the Leipzig University Library, so that insights into Goetzsche's selection criteria for his volume are also possible. Hilliger incorporated this estate into the holdings of the manuscript department of the university library in 1928 or 1929.[3]
Works: Contributions to the history of Duke Albrecht V and the Landsberg League 1556–1598 (= letters and files on the history of the sixteenth century, part. 5), Munich 1898.
Contributions to the history of Duke Albrecht V and the so-called Noble conspiracy of 1563 (= letters and files on the history of the sixteenth century, part. 6), edited together with Leonhard Theobald, Munich 1913.
Sources on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 4 vols., Leipzig 1928–1936.
Italy in the Middle Ages, 2 vols., Leipzig 1942.
historian in my time. Collected Essays. The essays from 1912 to 1955 for the 90th anniversary. Birthday of Walter Goetz, ed. by Herbert Grundmann, Cologne-Graz 1957.
(Ed.) Letters from Wilhelm II. to the Tsar 1894–1914, Ullstein, Berlin 1920.
(Ed.) Propylaea World History. The development of humanity in society and the state, economy and intellectual life, 10 volumes, Berlin 1929–33.
Max Rubner (*2. June 1854 in Munich; † 27. April 1932 in Berlin) was a German physician, physiologist and hygienist.
Family: His father Johann Nepomuk Rubner was a locksmith and iron dealer. His mother Barbara, née Shower came from Augsburg. Rubner was with Helene, daughter of the royal. Married senior building officer Karl Ritter von Leimbach from Munich, who died in 1915. The marriage resulted in two daughters and two sons. Johanna Quandt was one of his five grandchildren.
Education and profession: Rubner attended the humanistic Max-Gymnasium in Munich and Sunday lectures at an industrial school. At the age of 15 he already owned a microscope and chemical apparatus. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine from 1873 to 1877 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Adolf von Baeyer, in whose chemical laboratory he worked, and with the physiologist Carl von Voit. During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the Sondershäuser Association.[1] He received his doctorate in 1878 with a thesis on nutrient utilization in the intestines. He remained an unpaid assistant to Voit until 1880. Here Rubner developed a new concept for researching the bioenergetics of metabolism. In 1880/81 he spent an academic year at Carl Ludwig's physiological institute in Leipzig, where he continued his studies on determining nutrient energy levels in the body. In 1883 he completed his habilitation in Munich with a thesis on the calorific values of nutrients in the field of physiology and over the next two years presented his completely new concepts of energy conservation, the validity of the law of energy conservation in the animal organism, the isodynamic relationship of nutrient calorific values and energy loss through thermal radiation Evaporation according to surface law. The calorimetric determination of the energy of the basic nutrients that the body can use, the so-called physiological calorific value, goes back to Rubner: carbohydrates or Protein corresponds to an energy intake of 1,717 kJ/100 g (410 kcal/100 g) and fat to an energy intake of 3,894 kJ/100 g (930 kcal/100 g), whereby these nutrients can replace each other energetically (“isodynamy”).
In 1885 Rubner accepted an appointment to the chair of hygiene and state medicine at the University of Marburg, first as an associate professor and then in 1887 as a full professor. At this time he was convinced that hygiene was simply applied physiology. In Marburg he carried out work on heat regulation, body surface area and metabolism (“Biological Laws”). In 1891, Rubner took over the chair of hygiene at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin as Robert Koch's successor. In 1905 a large new institute was built for him and in 1909 he moved to the chair of physiology as the successor to Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann. In 1909 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors. From 1913 to 1926 Rubner was also director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Work Physiology in Berlin, which he co-founded. This founding gave rise to several academic institutions: the Institute for Occupational Research (today: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology) in Dortmund and the Chair of Occupational Medicine at the Institute for Occupational Medicine at the Charité in Berlin. Numerous works on nutritional physiology and metabolism were created here, including the hygienic effects of clothing, climate, air, water, housing and temperature, as well as questions about the nutrition of entire populations. As part of calorimetric research, he described the specific dynamic effect of organic nutrients and the surface law (basic predictability of an organism's energy turnover according to its body surface).
Achievements: In 1894 Rubner established the validity of the principle of energy conservation in living organisms and from 1896 to 1903 he clarified the influence of hypothermia on metabolism and of heat (heat conduction, radiation, evaporation) on energy losses. He also spent years studying the calorie requirements of certain professions. Rubner coined the terms “protein minimum” (minimum daily protein intake to maintain the balance between nitrogen intake and excretion) and “wear rate” (daily nitrogen loss without protein intake). Rubner defined 100 g of protein per day as the “hygienic protein minimum” for adults (1914). According to Rubner, lifespan is a function of energy consumption.
During the First World War, Rubner was active in the field of national nutrition, examining questions of changing dietary habits caused by increasing urbanization and social change as well as the consequences of the Allied blockade (famine) on the civilian population (1918). During the last years of his life, based on research results on nutrition and metabolism, he expanded his subject matter to include comprehensive human problems: global nutrition, the struggle for survival, hunger, malnutrition, illness, poor living and health conditions.
Rubner was notoriously reserved and had a sense of sarcastic humor. As a researcher, he was meticulous and inventive, designing calorimetric apparatus himself. Rubner can be considered the founder of scientific nutritional physiology, physical-chemical, experimental hygiene as well as scientific work physiology, occupational medicine and applied physiology.
Honors:
1906 member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1919 secretary of the physical-math. Class)
1914 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences[2]
as well as a member of numerous other academies (Austria, Norway, Sweden, Finland) as well
1924 from the American National Academy of Sciences
Honorary member of the English Physiological Society
1930 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
1932 election as a member of the Leopoldina[3]
1960 Rubner Peak in Antarctica is named after
Pettenkofer Prize for Hygiene from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences,
Honorary doctorate from Kristiana University, Oslo.
His grave in the Lichterfelde Park Cemetery was an honorary grave of the city of Berlin from 1987 to 2011.
Awards
Secret Senior Medical Council
The Max Rubner Institute (MRI), Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food, is named after the physiologist.
The Max Rubner Prize of the German Nutrition Society is awarded every four years.
Currently, three bacteria have been named in honor of Max Rubner: Streptococcus rubneri, Enteroscipio rubneri and Rubneribacter badeniensis
Max Josef Pettenkofer, from Pettenkofer since 1883 (*3. December 1818 in Lichtenheim near Neuburg an der Donau; † 10. February 1901 in Munich) was a Bavarian chemist. He founded the Hygiene Institute posthumously named after him and is considered the first hygienist in Germany.
Life: Pettenkofer was born on the Einödhof Lichtenheim near Lichtenau on the northern edge of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos as the fifth of eight children of the farmer Johann Baptist Pettenkofer (1786–1844) and his wife Barbara Pettenkofer (1786–1837).[2][3] The family conditions were very poor. To attend school, he was placed in Munich in the care of his uncle Franz Xaver Pettenkofer, who was the royal Bavarian court and personal pharmacist. In 1837, Max Pettenkofer passed the school leaving examination at the Munich Old Gymnasium.[4] He began studying at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in natural sciences, pharmacy and, from 1841, also in medicine and chemistry. It was his uncle with whom Max did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist from 1839 onwards. He then continued his studies in 1841 and completed his studies in 1843 with a doctorate in medicine, surgery and obstetrics. At the same time he acquired his license to practice medicine. His first publication came out in 1842. In it he described a method for detecting arsenic and separating arsenic and antimony. He then studied chemistry at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and then moved to the Hessian Ludwig University in Justus von Liebig's laboratory.
In June 1845 he married his cousin Helene (1819–1890).[2] The marriage resulted in five children, three of whom died prematurely.[5] Maximilian Pettenkofer (1853–1881) and his daughter Anna Verh developed independently. Riediger (1838–1882).
Since Max Pettenkofer could not find a job after completing his studies in Giessen, he returned to Munich and initially devoted himself to poetry. The result was the “Chemical Sonnets,” which appeared in print in 1890. In 1845 he took a job at the Bavarian Mint. Here he dealt with processes for the refined extraction of gold, silver and platinum when minting the Kronentaler. In 1847 he was appointed associate professor of pathological-chemical investigations at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). His lectures from this time were titled “Dietary Physiological Chemistry” and “Public Health Care”. Important inventions from this time were his suggestions for an improved method for producing cement in 1849.[6] A year earlier he had invented the copper amalgam tooth filling. When his uncle died in 1850, he also took over the management of the court pharmacy. “Liebig's meat extract” was successfully produced and sold here. In 1852 he was able to defeat Maximilian II. Persuading Joseph (Bavaria) to appoint Justus von Liebig to Munich. In the same year Pettenkofer became full professor. In 1862 he became involved in a very successful company. It imported meat extract from Uruguay under the name “Liebigs Extract of Meat Companie” with its registered office in London. In 1864/65 he held the office of rector of the University of Munich. In the same year he became the first German professor of hygiene in Munich and the first chair holder of this subject;[1] the first hygiene institute was built from 1876 to 1879.
Max Pettenkofer carried Ludwig II. (Bavaria) presented his ideas about keeping people healthy and urban hygiene at a private audience in 1865. Ludwig then brought about a ministerial resolution with which the scientific subject “Hygiene” was introduced on January 16th. was made a nominal subject in September 1865.[7] In the following years he fought for the hygienic renovation of the city of Munich. By 1883 he managed to set up an exemplary drinking water supply and set up an efficient sewage system (flood sewer), thereby bringing significantly improved living conditions to the city. In 1882, Bavaria's King Max Pettenkofer elevated him to hereditary nobility.
From 1890 to 1899 he was President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Emeritus at the end of 1893, he also gave up his work at the court pharmacy in 1896. Towards the end of his life, however, he increasingly found himself sidelined scientifically because he did not want to recognize Robert Koch's bacteriological findings in cholera research.[8] Although he had already put forward the thesis in 1869 that cholera and typhus were caused by specific microorganisms and poor environmental conditions, he was unable to prove it. This was only done in 1892 by Robert Koch (1843–1910), when Pettenkofer ingested a vibrio culture in a self-experiment without becoming too seriously ill.
Plagued by increasing pain and severe depression, Max von Pettenkofer shot himself at the age of 82 in his court apothecary's apartment in the Munich Residence.[9] The autopsy revealed chronic meningitis and cerebral sclerosis.
Gravesite and legacy: His gravesite is in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (grave field 31 - row 1 - place 33/34) (location).
His estate is kept and scientifically maintained in the Bavarian State Library.
Achievements: Pettenkofer's most recognized area of work was the science of hygiene, which he himself defined and filled with content. He established hygiene as an independent area of medicine and also recognized the economic aspects associated with it. He therefore also addressed administration and engineers and developed health technology that was used, for example, in the renovation of Munich. Munich owes Pettenkofer its sewer system[11] and a central drinking water supply. Towards the end of the 19th century In the 19th century, Munich was considered one of the cleanest cities in Europe.
At the beginning of his professional career, chemistry and physiology were his preferred areas of work. One of Pettenkofer's most important achievements is the discovery of periodically occurring properties in chemical elements (1850). He thus created an essential basis for the development of the periodic table of elements (according to Mendeleyev's own statements, the work had an influence on him).[12] He went beyond Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner's triad classification, which was already widespread at the time, and discovered regularities with periods 8 and 16 (in other groups of 5). However, due to a lack of support from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, he was unable to continue his research. He developed bile acid detection under Justus von Liebig and worked at the Royal Mint, where he applied improved methods for precious metal smelting and coin production (1848–1849). In 1844, Pettenkofer discovered creatinine, an important metabolic product of muscle tissue. In 1857 he described the production of lighting gas from wood (wood gas) for the cities of Basel and Munich (1851) and examined metabolic balances (around 1860 and later at the Hygiene Institute) together with the physiologist Carl Voit (1831–1908). From this, the two researchers developed the theory that all living things are made up of three organic compounds that are necessary for nutrition: proteins, fats and carbohydrates.[13] To this day, ventilators are built according to the “Pettenkofer principle”. The meat extract (“soup cube” according to Liebig) developed by Justus von Liebig and Pettenkofer was produced on an industrial scale using South American beef.
With Carl Voit, the pathologist Ludwig Buhl and the botanist Ludwig Radlkofer, he published the Journal of Biology from 1865.[1] Pettenkofer accompanied this as editor for 18 years.
Pettenkofer later devoted himself to epidemiology. In contrast to his earlier work, these investigations only have historical value. Pettenkofer did not believe that cholera, which also broke out in Munich in 1854, was caused by one pathogen alone, but rather attributed the main importance to the soil and groundwater properties (Investigations and Observations on the Spread of Cholera, 1855). He represented this view for decades, including at scientific “cholera conferences” such as the one in Weimar in 1867, and he stuck to it even after Robert Koch's discovery of the pathogen in 1884.[14] In connection with the famous dispute with Robert Koch over the cause of cholera, Pettenkofer swallowed on the 7th. October 1892[15] even a culture of cholera bacteria. He escaped with severe diarrhea, possibly because he was still resistant to the pathogen due to his illness in July 1854.[2] Pettenkofer was of the opinion that environmental conditions were of considerably greater importance for the development of a disease than the mere presence of pathogens. He and some of his students who repeated the experiment did not become ill or only became slightly ill, which Pettenkofer felt confirmed. However, he was wrong in that he assumed a certain “contagious element Y” (miasma) which – like a chemical reaction – made the development of a disease possible.[16] The site visit and extensive statistical recording and evaluation of epidemic events, which are common in epidemiology today, were introduced by Pettenkofer and his students.
Pettenkofer worked in a strictly scientific-experimental manner and is considered the founder of experimental hygiene (“conditional hygiene”).[1] His studies on clothing, heating, ventilation, sewage and water supply also had experimental features. Like his teacher v. Liebig, Pettenkofer was a positivist, that is, he only recognized visible facts, for example those obtained in experiments, as a source of knowledge.
Pettenkofer made a mistake that still has an impact today, with many people believing that there is a “breathing wall”: During early air change measurements in a room, he found that after supposedly sealing all the joints, the air change rate decreased less than expected. From this he concluded that there was a significant exchange of air through the brick walls. He probably didn't think of sealing the chimney of a stove in the room. According to Pettenkofer, air exchange through the room walls is an important contribution to cleaning the room air.
Pettenkofer published a total of more than 20 monographs and 200 original articles in scientific and medical journals. His achievements as the founder of hygiene, pioneer of environmental medicine, experimental field researcher, chemist and nutritional physiologist were and are recognized worldwide. Medicinal chemistry also owes him useful detection methods for arsenic (Marsh's test[17]), sugar and urine components. He was honored for his scientific achievements on December 24th. In January 1900 he was admitted to the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts.
The traditional hygienic indoor air value for CO2 is named after Pettenkofer - the Pettenkofer number. Pettenkofer gave her limit value as 0.10%.
The monument to Max von Pettenkofer is located on Maximiliansplatz not far from the Wittelsbacher Brunnen
5 DM commemorative coin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1968 (picture side)
Memberships and Honors
Bavarian Academy of Sciences, associate member (1846), full member (1856), president (1890–1899)
Member of the Leopoldina (1859)
Foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1874)[19]
Foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1898)
Bavarian hereditary nobility (1883); Title Excellence (1896); Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown (1900)
Bunsen-Pettenkofer Roll of Honor of the DVGW (1900)
Honorary citizen of the city of Munich (1872); Golden Citizen Medal of the State Capital Munich (1893); Gold Medal of the City of Munich (1899)
Member of the Senior Medical Committee (1849)
Member of the Munich Casual Society[20] (1852)
Harben Medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health, England (1897); Gold Medal of the Chemical Society
Names according to Pettenkofer
On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the Federal Republic of Germany brought A 5 D Mark commemorative coin was issued on his birthday.
The Max von Pettenkofer Institute (Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology at the University of Munich) at the University of Munich is named after Max von Pettenkofer.[21]
In Munich's Ludwigsvorstadt, Pettenkoferstrasse is named after him.
A type of bacteria is named after Pettenkofer: Staphylococcus pettenkoferi.
In Berlin-Friedrichshain, a primary school and a street are named after Pettenkofer.
The Bunsen-Pettenkofer Roll of Honor of the German Gas and Water Association is named after him and Robert Bunsen.
The “Pettenkofer process”, a painting restoration technique and a regeneration process for blinded varnish.[22]
The Pettenkofer School of Public Health (PSPH) is named after Max von Pettenkofer. The PSPHLMU is supported by the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as by the two cooperation partners, the Helmholtz Center Munich and the State Office for Health and Food Safety.