Dr. Armin Kutzsche | |
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Born |
Frankfurt am Main |
17 February 1914
Died | 19 February 1995 Frankfurt am Main |
(aged 81)
Nationality | German |
Fields | Medical microbiology |
Institutions | |
Alma mater | |
Doctoral advisor | Bernhard Fischer-Wasels |
Other academic advisors |
Armin Karl Wilhelm (A.K.W.) Kutzsche (17 February 1914 – 19 February 1995) was a German physician, microbiologist and industrial scientist. He was a researcher at the universities of Freiburg and Frankfurt, and at the pharmaceutical companies Cassella, Schering and Merck. At Cassella and Schering, he was head of microbiological research and development in the 1950s and 1960s.
He studied medicine at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Freiburg, and graduated in 1937. He obtained his doctorate in 1939, with a dissertation on the influence on tumor grafts by lipoid tumors, supervised by Bernhard Fischer-Wasels, and later became a specialist in internal medicine. Early in his career, he was a resident at the Paul Ehrlich Institute and various hospitals, was drafted as a military physician (captain) in the Army Medical Service, and worked as a bacteriologist at Uhlenhuth's research laboratory at the University of Freiburg. He was an assistant professor in Schlossberger's research group at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the Goethe University Frankfurt 1945–1949.