Benno Reinhardt

Benno Ernst Heinrich Reinhardt ( born May 14, 1819 in Neustrelitz, † March 11, 1852 in Berlin) was a German physician and anatomist pathological.

Life

Reinhardt was born in 1819 as the son of a pharmacist in Neustrelitz. He was the youngest of eight siblings. After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied medicine in Berlin and Halle, 1839. He received his Ph.D. in 1844 in Berlin with the Treatise Concerning the symptomatology of peritonitis. In 1847 he started with his friend Rudolf Virchow, the issue of the Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, which is now published to this day as Virchow's Archives in over 450 volumes. 1847 Reinhardt was an assistant to Karl Wilhelm Mayer. In 1848 he worked as a doctor at Wilhelm Schütz ( 1808-1857 ) in the cholera hospital, 1849, he qualified as a lecturer and was an assistant doctor at the Charité, where he occupied Virchow's place in the morgue when he went to Würzburg. Reinhardt died in 1852 of tuberculosis.

Writings (selection )

• Contributions to the knowledge of Bright's disease. In: Charité Annalen 1/2, 1850, pp. 185-243.
• Pathological- anatomical investigations. After his death, compiled and edited by Rudolf Leubuscher. Berlin 1852.