Gustav Hauser

Gustav Hauser (13 July 1856 in Nördlingen – 30 June 1935 in Erlangen) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen, where he worked as an assistant in the gynecological clinic under Paul Zweifel and at the pathological institute of Friedrich Albert von Zenker.

[1] In 1885, Hauser was the first to isolate the bacillus Proteus vulgaris.

[2] He is also credited with developing a formalin for the preservation of bacterial cultures.

[3] In Erlangen, the thoroughfare Gustav-Hauser-Straße is named in his honor.