Theodor Rumpel (surgeon)

Carl August Theodor Rumpel ( born March 25, 1862 in Gütersloh, † August 11, 1923 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Theodor Rumpel earned his doctorate in 1887 in Marburg. He then worked at the General Hospital Hamburg -Eppendorf, where he was involved in fighting the cholera epidemic of 1892. In 1893, he was senior physician in the fifth medical department of the AK Eppendorf.

In 1907 he was appointed to the Building Committee, which had been commissioned to build the General Hospital Barmbek. Rumpel led the AK Barmbek from 1912 until his death in 1923 as a director. According to him, the Theodor Rumpel - way and the Theodor Rumpel - Rose in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord are named.

Research

Rumpel described in 1909 as the first point-like cutaneous bleeding ( petechiae ) in venous congestion on the arm of scarlet fever patients. This process is also known as junk - Leede test: a medical examination in order to check the stability of the capillaries as well as the functionality of the platelets. The American physician Carl Stockbridge Leede (1882-1964) described in 1911 independently by Rumpel this procedure.