Erich Letterer

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Erich Letterer (born June 30, 1895 in Nuremberg , † May 26, 1982 in Tübingen ) was a German pathologist and university professor .

Life

The son of a factory owner studied Letterer in Freiburg and Würzburg medicine . During his studies he became a member of the Wettina Freiburg choir in 1915 and of the Saxo-Thuringia Würzburg choir in 1918 . In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate , and in 1922 he began his training as a pathologist there with Martin Benno Schmidt . In 1924 Letterer described aleukemic reticulosis, later referred to as Abt-Letterer-Siwe disease (see Histiocytosis X ), which made him a name for himself in pathology. In 1926, Letterer completed his habilitation in Würzburg through studies on the type and development of amyloid, proving that dysproteinemic globulin multiplication is a decisive factor. In 1931 he was appointed adjunct professor and a six-month research stay in Oxford by the Rockefeller Foundation .

In 1935, Letterer took over the largest prosecution in Germany at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital . In 1939 he followed a call to the University of Tübingen as the successor to Albert Dietrich . There he became head of the Pathology Institute until his retirement in 1964. From 1965 to 1971, he accepted an appointment as professor of experimental pathology and immunology at the Medical Faculty of the Opus Dei -run University of Navarra in Pamplona , made him in 1972 with the honorary doctorate distinguished .

In 1965 Erich Letterer received the Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association . In 1961 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1966 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Letterer was in 1955 with Franz Büchner (1895-1982) and Frédéric Roulet founding editor of the Handbuch der Allgemeine Pathologie in Springer Verlag, the last volume of which was published in 1977.

Works

  • About a xanthous lymphogranulomatosis with special involvement of the skeleton. Fischer, Jena 1934
  • General pathology: basics and problems. Thieme, Leipzig 1959
  • General Morphological Immunology: A Guide for Students and Physicians as an Introduction to the Morphology of Immune Phenomena. Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York, 1969
  • Morphological equivalent images of immunological processes in the organism. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York, 1971

literature

  • Association of Friends of the University of Tübingen: Attempto: Messages for the Friends of Tübingen University , issues 67–71, p. 44.
  • Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. 1984, p. 68.
  • Peter Altmeyer, Martina Bacharach-Buhles: Springer Encyclopedia Dermatology, Allergology, Environmental Medicine . Springer-Verlag, December 2002, ISBN 978-3-540-41361-5 , p. 891.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 250.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About heterotopic tumors of the choroidal plexuses (enchondromas, gliomas and ganglioneurogliomas). Würzburg, 1920.
  3. ↑ Letterer E .: Aleukämische Reticulosis (a contribution to the proliferative diseases of the Retikuloendothelialapparates). In: Frankf Z Pathol . tape 30 , 1924, pp. 377-394 .
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: Studies on the nature and origin of the amyloid. Wuerzburg, 1926.
  5. ↑ Götze, Springer-Verlag, Volume 2, Springer 1994, p. 301
personal data
SURNAME Letterer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1982
Place of death Tübingen