| LC control no. | no2015084105 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mense, Carl, 1861-1938 |
| Variant(s) | Mense, C. (Carl), 1861-1938 Mense, Carl Anton, 1861-1938 |
| Associated country | Germany Congo (Democratic Republic) |
| Birth date | 1861 |
| Death date | 19381024 |
| Place of birth | Westphalia (Germany) |
| Place of death | Kassel (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Tropical medicine Dermatology |
| Affiliation | Deutsche Kolonialschule (Witzenhausen, Germany) Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft Association internationale africaine |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians Medical teaching personnel |
| Found in | Résumé de l'état sanitaire de la Station de Léopoldville, 1887?: title page (le docteur Mense; b. in Westphalia; had a long stay in the Dutch [East] Indies before arriving in Congo; as doctor of the État Indépendant [du Congo] he directed the sanitary service, first in Vivi and then in Léopoldville; he just left this last station to explore Bas-Kwango) OCLC, June 24, 2015 (access points: Mense, Carl; Mense, Carl, Dr.; Mense, ...; Mense (Docteur); Mense, C.; Mense, Carl Anton, 1861- ; usage: C. Mense; Dr. C. Mense; Carl Mense; Prof. Dr. Carl Mense) Univ. Heidelberg website, Olaf Brethauer. Der Tropenmediziner Carl Mense (1861-1938), Leben und Werk, undated (2000 or later), PDF, viewed June 24, 2015: page 1 (studied at universities of Leipzig, Kiel, Berlin and Munich; in 1884 at age 23 he traveled as a ship's doctor to the Dutch East Indies; in 1885 he joined the Belgian "Association Internationale Africaine" which had established stations along the Congo River; in June 1885 he traveled to the Congo; in addition to his medical activities he did anthropological investigations and made weather observations) page 2 (first European to climb the Mangele mountains; when his contract with Association internationale africaine ended in 1887 he went to Madeira; one of his patients, industrialist Riebeck from Halle, took Mense as his physician to South Africa in 1888, then to New Zealand, Australia, and SE Asia; Mense returned to Germany through N. Africa, began in 1890 as asst. under Max Joseph at Berliner Hautklinik, also worked in Kassel) page 3 (in 1887 he founded Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropenhygiene, the first independent journal of tropical medicine in Germany; published Tropische Gesundheitslehre und Heilkunde in 1902, Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten in 1905; in addition to work as a dermatologist in Kassel he taught at the Kolonialschule, Witzenhausen, 1900-1914) page 4 (member, Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft; d. Oct. 24, 1938 in Kassel, age 77) |
| Associated language | ger |
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