Karl Lennert

Karl Lennert ( born June 4, 1921 in Fuerth, † August 27, 2012 in Kiel ) was a German pathologist who dealt primarily with lymphomas and leukemias.

Life

After graduating from high school Fürth Lennert studied from 1939 to 1945 medicine at the Friedrich -Alexander- University of Erlangen. Until 1950 he was an assistant at the Institute of Pathology. After a year at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, he went into the pathology of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. There he completed his habilitation on the lymphoma. His boss Arnold Lauche could with the " microcellular Kleinkack " do not start too much.

In 1963 Lennert the call of the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel on her chair. As director of the Institute of Pathology Kiel he made the world's first address in the hematopathology. Three quarters of its employees were sons of professors of medicine. In his institute the lights rarely went out before midnight. Lennert - students were, among others, Reza Parwaresch and ordinaries in Berlin (stone), Essen ( leather), Frankfurt am Main ( Hansmann ), Göttingen ( Radzun ), Lübeck ( Feller ) and Würzburg ( Müller- Hermelink ). In the Sonderforschungsbereich 111 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft clinicians as Arnulf Thiede and Wolfram Sterry habilitated.

Lennert was founding president of the European Association of Haematopathology. He retired in 1989.

Kiel classification

Lennert began around 1975 malignant lymph node tumors ( non-Hodgkin's lymphomas ) to classify a system which prevailed as Kiel classification in Europe. In the U.S., at the same time came to the Lukes - Collins classification. Later, both were replaced by other classifications (Revised European American Lymphoma Classification ( REAL) 1994 WHO classification to 2001).

In order not to let Lennerts unique archive at his retirement perish Barschel promised the establishment of a well-equipped private institute in Kiel. With the Barschel affair were dashed Lennerts hopes.

Honors

  • Member of the Leopoldina (1966 )
  • Schleiden Medal of the Leopoldina (1980 )
  • Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986 )
  • Robert Koch Medal (1993 )
  • Rudolf Virchow Medal
  • Ernst Jung Prize

Writings

  • Pathology of the cervical lymph nodes, Springer 1964
  • With Yoshitaka Mori: Electron microscopic atlas of lymph node cytology and pathology, Springer 1969
  • With Harald Stein: Histopathology of non -Hodgkin 's lymphomas: based on the Kiel classification, Springer 1981, 2nd edition 1992, 3rd edition as Histopathology of nodal and extra nodal non-Hodgkin 's lymphomas, completely re-edited by Alfred C. Feller, Jacques Diebold, Springer 2004
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