Ludwig Traube (physician)

Ludwig Traube ( born January 12, 1818 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, † April 11, 1876 in Berlin) was a German physician and is considered a co-founder of experimental pathology in Germany.

Life

Ludwig Traube was the eldest son of a Jewish wine merchant. As one of the youngest graduates, he earned only 17 years in 1835 his diploma at the Gymnasium in Ratibor. He studied in Breslau, Berlin and Vienna medicine - among others with Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) and Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801-1858 ). In addition, he pursued philosophical studies with particular interest in the philosophy of Spinoza. In 1840 he received his doctorate, inter alia, via the pulmonary emphysema ( " Specimina nonnulla physiologica et pathologica " ), expanded his knowledge with Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky ( 1804-1878 ) and Josef von Škoda ( 1805-1881 ) in Vienna. From 1841 he was an assistant to a poor doctor in Berlin. In 1848 he qualified as a lecturer and in 1849 the first civilian assistant to Johann Lukas Schönlein ( 1793-1865 ) at the Charité. Ludwig Traube was involved, at least as a doctor in the revolutionary events of 1848. The later became renowned botanist Nathanael Pringsheim (1823-1894), who belonged to the circle of Traube, fell into the armed clashes in Berlin, and was arrested. A life-threatening injured friend Pringsheims could be saved thanks to the help of Ludwig Traube. In 1853 grape was directing physician of the department for lung patients at the Charité and later Head of the preparatory clinic. In addition, his activities extended to the teaching at the military medical educational institutions. In the interior department of the hospital of the Jewish community in Berlin, he was chief physician. His Jewish ancestry was a major obstacle to the academic career, although grape in 1857 and 1862 associate professor at the Friedrich- Wilhelm -Institut in Berlin. In 1858 he joined the Society of Friends. In 1866 he was privy medical officer and in 1872 full professor at the University of Berlin. Ludwig Traube suffered from ischemic heart disease from which he is probably deceased. His tomb is located in the Jewish cemetery Berlin Beautifully Allee and is obtained.

Ludwig Traube was in close contact with his brother Moritz Traube, which paved the way for the physiological chemistry as exceptional private scholar. The famous Berlin physician Moritz Litten (1845-1907) was his son. Ludwig was married grape with Cora Marckwald from which they had 3 girls and 2 boys out. Long before the era of serum and antibiotic therapy he could not save from death, which was a sustained traumatic event for his oldest grape, with 5 years suffering from diphtheria son. The second son, Ludwig Traube (1861-1907), was a noted philologist and paleograph; the daughter Margarete grape (1856-1912) married the physician and professor of physiology in Rome Franz Boll ( 1849-1879 ). His nephew Wilhelm Traube (chemist, 1866-1942 ) and Albert Fraenkel ( Internist, 1848-1916 ) belong to the family of scholars continue to grape - carriage - Fraenkel, has produced yet another excellent representative of the natural sciences and the humanities in subsequent generations.

Appreciation

Special merits Ludwig Traube gained in establishing the experimental pathophysiological research in Germany ( he led, inter alia, in the 40s of the 19th century, animal experiments in his Berlin apartment in the Oranienburger Str by ), physical in the development and dissemination methods of examination ( auscultation and percussion ) and as a taxonomist of medical documentation (introduction of fever -pulse respiratory rate curve in clinical practice ). He explored the pathophysiology of respiration and temperature regulation, and put the digitalis on a scientific basis. The close relationships of cardiac and renal diseases were identified by him. In the scientific and personal exchange he was, inter alia, with Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), with whom he founded the contributions to experimental pathology, for example.

Honors

The University of Leiden gave Ludwig Traube in 1875 an honorary doctorate. On the Charité - site, a memorial monument was erected in 1878. A street in Ratibor received in 1927 in his honor and in honor of his brother Moritz the name " Dr. Grape Street ". Attributed to Ludwig Traube are the eponyms:

  • " Traub Escher double" ( Auskultationsgeräusch on peripheral arteries eg aortic regurgitation )
  • " Traub Esches noise " ( gallop rhythm in heart failure )
  • " Traub Escher room " ( crescent-shaped thorax with tympanitischem knocking sound attenuation at left-sided pleural effusion )
  • " Traub ash dyspnea " (form of inspiratory dyspnea )
  • " Traub ash plug" ( cheesy discharge in bronchiectasis )
  • " Traube-Hering - Mayer's waves " ( rhythmic variations in blood pressure )
  • " Traub ash corpuscles " ( dysmorphic, hypochromic erythrocytes)

Writings

  • The causes and the nature of those changes which the lung parenchyma after section of the nerves. vagi suffers. Berlin, 1845.
  • Contribution to the theory of asphyxia on the respiratory system. Contributions to experimental pathology. 1846 and 1847.
  • About Thätigkeits - periodic manifestations of vasomotor and inhibitory nerve-center. In: Central Journal for the Medici niches sciences. Berlin, 1865, 3: 881-885.
  • The symptoms of the diseases of the respiratory and circulatory apparatus. Lectures held at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. Hirschwald, Berlin, 1867.
  • Collected contributions to pathology and physiology. Hirschwald, Berlin 1871-1878.
  • A case of pulsus bigeminus together with comments on the liver swelling with valvular and acute liver atrophy. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, 1872, 9: 185-188, 221-224.

Sources and Literature

  • Julius Pagel: grape, Ludwig. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 504-507.
  • Traube, Ludwig. Letters to Virchow, Literary Archives of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, NL- Virchow in 2188, 9 pp.
  • Berndt, H.: Ludwig Traube's contribution to nephrology. Zeitschr. Urol. Nephrol. 79 (1986 ), pp. 171-174.
  • Jewish Encyclopedia. Berlin (1930 ), pp. 1034-1035.
  • Winninger, S.: Large Jewish National Biography. Vol 6, Bucharest (1936 ), pp. 125-126.
  • Henrik Franke: Moritz Traube (1826-1894) From the wine merchant to academician, "Studies and Sources on the History of Chemistry", Volume 9, publisher of science and regional history Dr. Michael Engel, ISBN 3-929134-21-7.
  • Marianne Büning, Ludwig ( Louis) Traube - physician and university teacher. Founder of experimental pathology, Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, 2008, ISBN 9,783,938,485,781th
  • Traube, Ludwig. In: Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol 10 Saur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-598-23170-9, page 71
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