Heinrich Albers-Schönberg

Heinrich Ernst Albers- Schönberg ( born January 21, 1865 in Hamburg, † June 4, 1921 ) was a German physician. He was the first radiologist in Germany.

Life

Entered medical school Albers- Schönberg in Tübingen, then went to Leipzig and received his PhD in 1891. Subsequently, he worked from 1892 to 1894 as an assistant doctor at the General Hospital Eppendorf, also a year in Leipzig. Then he settled in Hamburg as a practical gynecologist and obstetrician down.

In 1897 he founded together with his colleague Georg Deycke the first " X-Ray Institute and Laboratory of Medical health investigations ." 1900 founded Albers- Schönberg atlases series "Archive and atlas of normal and pathological anatomy in typical x-ray images." In 1903 he was appointed as a radiologist at a Hamburg hospital, to which he joined a planned X-ray of his house. It became the model for similar institutions. This is around the present Albers- Schönberg Institute of Radiology at the General Hospital St. Georg in Hamburg.

The University of Hamburg appointed him in 1919 as a full professor. He was the first chair of X-ray customer worldwide. From 1910 began exhibiting the first radiation damage. The left arm had to be taken from him.

Almost all areas of radiology, he enriched his research. In 1903, he was the first to that the X-rays exert a germ- damaging effect. Connected is his name with the disease Albers- Schönberg, the marble bone disease described by him, or osteopetrosis. According to him, the Albers -Schönberg- way and the Albers -Schönberg- Rose have been named in Hamburg- Barmbek- Nord.

Albers- Schonberg was Corp. loop carrier Suevia of Tübingen ( 1886) and Misnia ( 1890).

Heinrich Albers- Schonberg was only 56, his wife Margaret nee Schroeder, however, 88 years old ( * December 10, 1869, † March 4, 1958 ). Both were buried in the cemetery Nienstedtener in Hamburg.

Works

• Some treated with Koch's tuberculin cases. Dissertation, 1891.
• The X-ray technology - textbook for physicians and students.. Hamburg, L. Grafe & Shillem, 1903 (2nd edition 1906, 6th ed Leipzig, Thieme, 1941)
• The X-ray method in surgery.
• Archives and atlas of normal and pathological anatomy in typical x-ray images.
• A rare, previously known structural abnormality of the skeleton. Advances in the field of X-rays, Hamburg, 1916, 23: 174-175.