Artur Pappenheim

Artur Pappenheim ( born December 13, 1870 in Berlin, † December 31, 1916 ) was a German hematologist. According to him the Pappenheim staining is named.

Career

He attended in Berlin the royal Wilhelmsgymnasium until his matriculation examination in 1889 and then studied mathematics and philosophy: one semester in Freiburg, three semesters in Berlin. He then began the study of medicine and the natural sciences in Berlin. There he received his doctorate in 1895 and received his license as a physician in 1896.

On Following his military service, he worked with Joseph von Mering at the University of Halle. This was followed by activities neurologist Ludwig Lichtheim in Königsberg, a dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna in Hamburg and from 1908 at the Cancer Research Institute of the Charité the internist Ernst Viktor von Leyden. In 1912 he qualified as a professor and was promoted to professor. After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he provided in a hospital in Russia soldiers who were ill with typhus. He infected himself with this condition and died New Year's Eve 1916 in a home leave.

Scientific work

Pappenheim dealt intensively with the blood cell research and tried to clarify the question of blood stem cells by morphological comparisons which, however, he had little success. His staining, but still applied " panoptic staining Universal " (now Pappenheim staining).

A special performance Pappenheim for hematology 1904 was the establishment of the Folia Haematologica, an international hematology journal, and in 1908 the Hematological Society Berlin.

After Pappenheim also Artur Pappenheim Prize is named, which is awarded since 1970 by the German Hematological Society annually for a research paper dealing with clinical, experimental or theoretical questions of Hematology.

Publications

• The formation of red blood discs. Schumacher, Berlin 1895 ( the same time. Berlin, Univ, Diss, 1895).
• Floor plan of color chemistry. To be used for microscopic work. Hirschwald, Berlin 1901.
• Atlas of human blood cells. 3 volumes. Fischer, Jena from 1905 to 1912.
• Outline of hematological diagnosis and quick blood test. W. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1911.
• Technique of clinical blood test for students and doctors. Springer, Berlin, 1911.
• With Adolfo Ferrata: About the different lymphoid cell lines of normal and pathological blood ( = library medical monographs Vol 10, ZDB - ID 986088-5. ). W. Klinkhardt, Leipzig, 1911.