Otto Busse

Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse (December 6, 1867 – February 3, 1922) was a German pathologist. Busse was born in Belgard, Pomerania, Prussia (today Białogard, Poland) and studied medicine at the University of Greifswald, and subsequently became an assistant to Paul Grawitz (1850–1932), (his future father-in-law) at Greifswald. Afterwards he moved to Posen (today Poznan, Poland), where in 1904 he became a professor of pathology. From 1911 until 1922 he was professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Zurich, where he died.

In 1894 Busse was the first to describe a yeast-like fungus known as Cryptococcus neoformans, which was discovered in a patient with chronic periostitis of the tibia. At the time he called the fungus Saccharomyces hominis. Infection caused by the fungus is called cryptococcosis, or sometimes Busse-Buschke disease, named in conjunction with dermatologist Abraham Buschke (1868–1943).

See also

• Hanns von Meyenburg

References

• NCBI One hundred years of cryptococcosis. Medical mycology in the 19th century in Greifswald
• PrignitzLexikon (translated biography of Otto Busse)
• Busse-Buschke disease @ Who Named It

Persondata
Name	Busse, Otto
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 6, 1867
Place of birth
Date of death	February 3, 1922
Place of death