Hans Sachs (1877-1945) Hans Sachs, Ehrlich's colleague, was born in 1877
in Kattowice, Upper Silesia. After studying in Freiburg, Breslau and
Berlin and receiving his doctorate in Leipzig in 1900, he joined the
staff of the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt in 1905.
In 1914 he was appointed extraordinary honorary professor at the newly
founded University of Frankfurt and became deputy director of the institute
in 1915. Sachs later became professor of immunology and serum research
and director of the Cancer Institute in Heidelberg. He published numerous
papers with Paul Ehrlich on immunological subjects and also edited the
Zeitschrift für Immunitätsforschung (Journal of Immunology
Research). |