Ernst Viktor von Leyden
Ernst Viktor von Leyden ( born April 20, 1832 in Gdansk, † October 5, 1910 in Berlin) was a German internist and high school teachers.
Life
After studying medicine from 1849 to 1853 on Medicinisch - surgical Friedrich- Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he was awarded his doctorate for Dr. med on 11 August 1853. He was abkommandierter assistant physician at the Clinic of Johann Lukas Schönlein, where he was strongly influenced by Ludwig Traube. After graduating in 1854, he was a military doctor in Dusseldorf, Königsberg and Gumbinnen. After his Physikatsexamen 1859 and his recall ( medical officer ), he became an assistant in the clinic of Traube in Berlin. The habilitation was 1864. After participating in the German - Danish War, he retired from the military service and Leyden in 1865 as the successor to Georg Hirsch ( 1799-1885 ), professor in Königsberg. At the Albertus University of Königsberg, he worked with Otto Spiegelberg (1830-1881) and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen ( 1833-1910 ). 1871/72 he was vice-rector of the Albertina. From 1872 to 1876 he taught at the University of Strasbourg.
In 1876 he became a professor in Berlin, where he was the successor of grape Head of Medical Hospital II. From 1885 to 1907 he was the successor of Friedrich Theodor Frerichs Director of the First Medical Clinic of the Charité. Leyden in 1903, the first Cancer Research Institute on the campus of the Charité. Worked in the field of pathology of the heart, the lung, the kidneys and the nervous system. Other fields were dietetics, social hygiene and tuberculosis and cancer treatment.
Leyden suggested collecting research on influenza, tuberculosis and cancer. Because success through this research he wanted to increasingly poor through the establishment of sanatoriums help ( sanatorium movement). 1895 German National Association for the erection of sanatoriums was established for lung patients who could achieve a significant decline in tuberculosis mortality.
On the Friedrichswerder Cemetery I in Berlin- Kreuzberg is his honor grave. In Berlin -Steglitz the Leydenallee bears his name. In 1913, the sculptor Eugene Börmel a bust of the physician, which was erected in front of the First and Second Medical Clinic in Schumannstrasse. In medicine, the Charcot- Leyden crystal, the Westphal - Leyden ataxia and the Leyden neuritis are named after him. In Wiesbaden, a street named after him in Aukammgebiet.
Works
- The gray degeneration of the posterior spinal cords, 1863.
- Clinic of spinal cord diseases, 1874-1876.
- Together with Alfred Goldscheider (1858-1935): The diseases of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata. In: Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (eds. ): Handbook of special pathology and therapy. Vol 10 Vienna from 1895 to 1897.
- Handbook of nutrition therapy, 1897-1899.
- Memoirs. Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1910.