Ferdinand Hueppe
Hueppe in 1902
1st President of the DFB
In office
7 October 1900 (1900-10-07)  1904 (1904)
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byFriedrich Wilhelm Nohe
Personal details
Born
Ferdinand Adolph Theophil Hueppe

(1852-08-24)24 August 1852
Neuwied-Heddesdorf, Kingdom of Prussia
Died15 September 1938(1938-09-15) (aged 86)
Dresden, Nazi Germany
Alma materUniversity of Berlin

Ferdinand Adolph Theophil Hueppe (24 August 1852 – 15 September 1938) was a German physician, bacteriologist and hygienist. From 1900 to 1904, he was the first Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Association) president.

Biography

From 1872 to 1876, Hueppe studied medicine at the University of Berlin, afterwards serving as a military surgeon. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of bacteriologist Robert Koch's staff in Berlin, and later worked at Carl Remigius Fresenius' institute (the Chemischen Institut Fresenius) in Wiesbaden. From 1889 to 1912 he was a professor at Charles University in Prague.

Hueppe is remembered for his pioneer investigations of hormesis in regards to chemical stimulation/inhibition of bacterial growth. The eponymous "Hueppe’s rule" is an historical term synonymous with hormesis.

Hueppe promoted a völkisch type of racial hygiene in which Aryans and Jews were considered separate races. He advocated Arnold Rikli's light and air baths as well as physical exercise.[1]

Criticism of vegetarianism

Hueppe opposed vegetarianism and characterized German vegetarians as "feminized men" who degenerated the Aryan race.[1] He argued that "Powerful Aryan elites" risked degeneration if they turned away from the omnivorous diet that had made their bodies and nation strong.[1] Hueppe stated that the earliest humans were meat eaters and that modern humans survive best on an omnivorous diet because a vegetarian diet is excessive in carbohydrates and lacks in protein. He described vegetarians as the "victims of an unnatural mode of existence".[2][3]

Publications

His book on bacterial research, Die methoden der bakterien-forschung, was later translated into English and published in 1886 with the title "The methods of bacteriological investigation".[4] Other noted efforts by Hueppe include:

  • Naturwissenschaftliche Einführung in der Bakteriologie, 1896 – Natural sciences introduction to bacteriology.
  • Der moderne Vegetarianismus 1900 – Modern vegetarianism.
  • Hygiene der Körperübungen, 1922 – Hygiene associated with physical exercise.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Treitel, Corinna. (2017). Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0
  2. "Vegetarianism". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2096): 535. 1901.
  3. "Vegetarianism and Evolution". The Sanitarian. 47 (382): 265–266. 1901.
  4. Google Books The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses delivered before the .by John Merle Coulter, Sir Humphry Davy, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur
  5. Google Search (publications)
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