David Gruby

David Gruby, around 1880

David Gruby (born August 20, 1810 in Kiskér , † November 14, 1898 in Paris ) was a Hungarian-Austrian pathologist and mycologist .

Life

David Gruby, the son of the small farmer Menachem Mendel Gruby, attended the Piarist School in Pest and studied medicine in Vienna from around 1831 to 1836. He was a student of the Viennese anatomist Joseph Berres and studied pathological anatomy with Carl von Rokitansky . He received his doctorate in 1839 with the work Observationes microscopiae ad morphologiam pathologicam spectantes . A position at the University of Vienna was made dependent on a conversion from the Jewish faith to Christianity, so that Gruby initially kept himself afloat by taking private lessons in microscopy. One of his students, Philibert-Joseph Roux , recommended Gruby to go to Paris, where he then ran a private laboratory for microscopy, physiology and pathological anatomy.

Gruby discovered various dermatophytes and is the first to describe the genus Microsporum . At the beginning of the 1840s he researched clinical, epidemiological and mycological details about the hereditary grind , which is why he is also considered the founder of dermatomycology (skin fungus science). He also described the penetration of Microsporum audouinii from the outside into the hair (ectotrich) in tinea capitis and tinea barbae and the growth within the hair (endotrich) of Trichophyton tonsurans . In addition, Gruby coined the generic name Trypanosoma and recognized Candida albicans as the causative agent of thrush .

literature

Werner Köhler : Gruby, David. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 513 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Köhler: Gruby David. 2005, p. 513
↑ ^a ^b Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology . Springer-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 9783642567940 , p. 29
↑ Irene Weitzman and Richard S. Summerbell: Dermatophytes . In: Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 8 (1995), pp. 240-259. PMID 7621400 , PMC 172857 (free full text)
^ David Gruby: Recherches et observations sur une nouvelle espèce d'hématozoaire, Trypanosoma sanguinis. In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaire des séances de l'Académie des Sciences , 17, Paris 1843, pp. 1134–1136.

Web links

David Gruby at whonamedit

personal data
SURNAME	Gruby, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian pathologist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiskér
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1898
Place of death	Paris

[1] Werner Köhler: Gruby David. 2005, p. 513

[Dhom-2] Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology . Springer-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 9783642567940 , p. 29

[3] Irene Weitzman and Richard S. Summerbell: Dermatophytes . In: Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 8 (1995), pp. 240-259. PMID 7621400 , PMC 172857 (free full text)

[4] David Gruby: Recherches et observations sur une nouvelle espèce d'hématozoaire, Trypanosoma sanguinis. In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaire des séances de l'Académie des Sciences , 17, Paris 1843, pp. 1134–1136.