Geheimer Hofrat Prof. Dr. Max Schottelius (1849 - 1919)

Max Bernhard Justus Georg Schottelius (15.11.1849 – 22.09.1919) was born in Braunschweig. He received his doctorate from Würzburg in 1874 and completed his post-doctoral research (habilitation) in in Marburg in 1879. His research focused on bacteriology and took him to Berlin, Paris and Munich. In 1883, Schottelius became first assistant at the Pathological and Anatomical Institute in Freiburg and associate professor in the Medical Faculty in 1884. In 1889 he was appointed full professor at the new Institute of Hygiene, of which he was director from 1895 until his death. Subsequent appointments to the Councillor (1899), privy councillor (1905) and privy councillor II. Class (1919) were to follow. Schottelius was also a member of the German Fleet Association and, from 1884, of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Freiburg (Nature Research Society Freiburg). The museum's records contain evidence of an ongoing correspondence and several donations from Max Schottelius from 1906 until 1912. Schottelius disappeared in September 1919 on Lake Constance, the date of his death was recorded as 22 September 1919.