Jakob Erdheim

Jakob Erdheim ( born May 24, 1874 in Boryslaw, † April 18, 1937 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pathologist.

Life

Jakob Erdheim (then Austria - Hungary), born in 1874 in the Galician Boryslaw and attended high school in Drohobicz. After graduating from medical school at the University of Vienna he received his doctorate in 1900 and took a job on the run by Anton Weichselbaum pathological- anatomical institute of the University. In 1913 he was appointed associate professor in and took over the Department of Pathology of the St. Anna Children's Hospital. In 1924 he began his work as a pathologist at the Kaiser 's Jubilee Hospital, where he remained active until his death in 1937. The autopsy revealed a heart attack as a cause of death.

Scientifically, Erdheim dealt mainly with the bone pathology, but also with diseases of the pituitary gland and the blood vessels. Cystic medial necrosis Erdheim - Gsell is named after him as (co - ) first described. In order to honor the memory of Erdheim ( often opted not to be named as co-author in scientific publications created under his direction contrary to the customs of the time), was coined by the American pathologist Henry Lewis Jaffe 1972 Deonym Erdheim - Chester disease as the name of the of William Chester (1903-1974) during a research stay at Erdheim first described histiocytosis. Erdheim's name is also associated with the first description of craniopharyngioma ( Erdheim 's tumor).

Erdheim's main place of activity at the Kaiser 's Jubilee Hospital, now the hospital Hietzing, Jakob Erdheim Institute of Pathology and Clinical Bacteriology was named.