Albert Niemann (pediatrician)

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Albert Niemann (born February 23, 1880 in Berlin ; † March 22, 1921 there ) was a German pediatrician . He is the first to describe the Niemann-Pick disease .

Life

Albert Niemann was the son of the opera singer Albert Niemann (1831-1917) and his second wife, the actress Hedwig Raabe . He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Freiburg and Strasbourg and received his doctorate in Strasbourg . From 1908 to 1918 he worked at the Berlin University Children's Clinic. In 1919, Niemann took over the management of an infant home in Berlin-Halensee , and the following year he was given an extraordinary professorship in paediatrics.

Act

In 1914, Niemann was the first to describe a case of what later became the Niemann-Pick disease. This "lipoid cell splenohepatomegaly type Niemann" was histopathologically differentiated from Gaucher disease by Ludwig Pick in 1926 and later named after the two doctors.

Albert Niemann published a textbook on paediatrics in 1920.

Publications (selection)

  • Albert Niemann: The metabolism in exudative diathesis . Marcus & Weber, Bonn 1914.
  • Albert Niemann: Compendium of paediatrics with special consideration of infant diseases . Karger, Berlin 1920.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Brück:  Niemann, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Niemann, Albert . In: Günter Krämer: Small Lexicon of Epileptology . Thieme, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-13-133831-8 , p. 202.
  3. ^ Albert Niemann: An unknown clinical picture . In: Yearbook for Pediatrics . No. 79, 1914. pp. 1-10.
  4. ↑ Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology . Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67490-X , p. 406.
personal data
SURNAME Niemann, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1921
Place of death Berlin