Otto Lubarsch

Lubarsch Otto ( born January 4, 1860 in Berlin, † April 1, 1933 ) was a German pathologist and university teachers.

Life

Lubarsch studied philosophy, science and medicine at the University of Leipzig, the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, the University of Jena, Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, then in Heidelberg and at last at the Kaiser -Wilhelms- University of Strasbourg. In the summer semester 1880 he was a member of the fraternity Allemannia Heidelberg. Only for the duration of his stay in the summer semester 1881 he was a member of the fraternity Teutonia Jena. In 1883 he received his doctorate in Strasbourg MD

Then was an assistant in pathological institutes, first with Hugo Kronecker in Bern, then in Giessen, Wroclaw and Zurich. In 1894 he became professor of anatomy and pathology in Rostock. In 1899 he became head of the Pathological Anatomy Department at the Hygienic Institute in Poznan. In addition, he was a lecturer in medicine at the Royal Academy in Poznan in WS 1903/ 04. In 1905 he became director of the Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology in Zwickau. Two years later Lubarsch received a professorship at the new or the Medical Academy at Dusseldorf.

In 1913 he moved to the Chair of the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel. From 1917 to 1928 he was finally working as a successor of John Orth as head of the company founded by Rudolf Virchow Institute of Pathology and Chair of Pathology at the Charité in Berlin. Also, as the successor of Orth he took with David Paul of Hansemannplatz the surrender of the medical journal Archives of Virchow and ran it according to Hanse 's death in 1920 alone. With Friedrich Henke (1868-1943) he was editor of the Handbook Henke- Lubarsch Handbook of Special Pathological anatomy and histology (12 vols, 1924-1952 ). The Veterinary Robert von Ostertag 1896, he founded the magazine results of general pathology and pathological anatomy of humans and animals.

As evangelical baptized Jew committed Lubarsch in Pan-German League and the German National People's Party. His students included the Jewish bacteriologist and pathologist Max Kuczynski and the Nobel laureate Werner Forssmann. Forssmann described it in his memoirs as " fanatical royalists " and " pan-German nationalists characteristics," the went so far in his Deutschtümmelei to downright ridiculous Sprachklitterung. He named the sample " main body artery like you Expansion ", used the Lubarsch for the appointment of an aortic aneurysm caused by syphilis. This use of the German language was also emphasized in his obituary by Robert Rössle and praised the work described Lubarschs for Virchow's Archives ". Especially coming in his sprung from a hot feeling patriotic efforts to provide a clean German language to express " At the same time presented Rössle, however, is that "his fight against the foreign words many people at Virchow's Archives occasional discomfort caused. " In addition Lubarsch be traced Forßmanns words, despite his Jewish ancestry by a pronounced anti -Semitic incitement and support of the " anti-Semitic goals of the national Socialist movement " from.

Otto Lubarsch died on 1 April 1933 of a heart attack.

Medical Research

Otto Lubarsch dealt with various issues of anatomy, pathology and histology. He focused on the study of ulcers and tumors, and in 1888 by Theodor Langhans one of the first, who presented a detailed description of carcinoid tumors of the small intestine based on descriptions of the tumors in two patients.

After Lubarsch the Lubarsch Islands and the Lubarsch -Pick syndrome are named.

Works

• Above the primary cancer of the ileum, together with remarks on the simultaneous occurrence of cancer and tuberculosis. Virchow's Archives of Pathological Anatomy 111, 1888; Pp. 280-317.
• Investigations into the causes of congenital and acquired immunity ( 1896)
• For the study of tumors and infectious diseases ( 1899)
• Pathological Anatomy and Cancer Research ( 1902)
• On the question of Hochschulrefeorm (1919)
• General and specific pathological histology of the radiation effect (1928 )
• Autobiography: A moving scholarly life, Springer- Verlag ( 1930)