Georg Arndt (doctor)

Georg Arndt (born September 2, 1874 in Berlin ; † August 19, 1929 there ) was a German dermatologist.

Life

As the son of a teacher, Arndt began to study medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg . On November 25, 1893, he was reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia at Marburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the University of Geneva and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . He passed the state examination in 1897 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He was an assistant doctor in Königshütte, Bern ( Joseph Jadassohn ), Paris and London. From 1906 he was with Edmund Lesser at the Dermatology Clinic of the Charité , where he completed his habilitation in 1911 . In 1914 he received an associate's post in Berlin . In 1915/16 he served as a medical officer on the Eastern Front (First World War) . In 1916 he became associate professor at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , which he remained until his expulsion from France. In 1919 he came to the Berlin chair for dermatology as the successor to Lesser . Among his students are Franz Blumenthal and Heinrich Gottron . The Arndt-Gottron syndrome ( scleromyxedema ) is named after him and Grotton . He also dealt with parapsoriasis en plaques, granuloma annulare and sporotrichosis .

Wolfram Sterry , Norbert Haas , in: Christoph Löser, Gerd Plewig (Ed.): Pantheon der Dermatologie , Springer 2008.