Carl Arnold Ruge

Biography

Carl Ruge was the son of the Berlin physician Ludwig Wilhelm Magnus Ruge (1812 o 1814-1897 ). His mother Marie Luise Karoline Philippine Mayer (1825-1908) was a daughter of the Berlin gynecologist Karl Wilhelm Mayer. Her sister Rosalie Ferdinande Amalie (1832-1913) married in 1850 the physician Rudolf Virchow.

After studying medicine, he was in 1871 on the recommendation of his uncle Rudolf Virchow addition to his work as a practicing doctor and obstetrician head of the laboratory for microscopic and clinical studies on the Women's Clinic of the Charité. He was also a long time employee of Karl Schroeder. From 1882 to 1912 he headed the then created for gynecology pathological institute at the University Women's Hospital in Berlin Artilleriestraße. 1896 he was appointed professor.

In the well-known textbook of gynecological diagnosis Ruge edited the microscopic diagnostic sections. He elaborated, partly in collaboration with the young gynecologist Johann Veit, the basics of gynecological histopathology, in particular in the microscopic diagnosis for the early diagnosis of uterine cancer. Considered together with Veit as describer of cervical cancer. Ruge was also a member of the German National Committee for the research and treatment of cancer eV