Gustav Simon (medic, 1810)

Gustav Simon , actually Karl Gustav Theodor Simon , (born November 2, 1810 in Berlin ; † May 11, 1857 in Zehlendorf near Berlin ) was a German doctor, pathologist and dermatologist and the founder of dermatopathology.

Life

Gustav Simon began his medical studies in Berlin in 1829. In 1831 he moved to Bonn to attend lectures by the anatomist, physiologist and biologist Johannes Peter Müller . The following year he returned to Berlin and obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1833 with a dissertation entitled De aquae Binelli et kreosoti virtute styptica .

Gustav Simon stayed in Berlin as a resident doctor, but continued to work on scientific publications. His microscopic studies and histopathological work were included in Ferdinand von Hebra's Atlas of Skin Diseases . In 1842 he accepted a position as a doctor for the needy. During this time he discovered and described the hair follicle mite . In 1844, Simon completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in general pathology and therapy, but later also gave lectures in dermatology, which were well attended. His specialist publication The Skin Diseases Explained by Anatomical Studies, first published in 1848 , was the first textbook in dermatopathology.

In 1848 Simon was appointed director of the department for skin diseases and syphilis at the Berlin Charité . He became one of the leading European specialists in skin and venereal diseases. In 1850 study trips took him to England and France.

In 1853 he fell ill with progressive paralysis (neurosyphilis), the long-term consequence of a syphilis disease. The causes of the disease had not yet been researched and it was impossible to cure it. So stays in sanatoriums in Potsdam, Neustadt-Eberswalde and Leubus did not bring any improvement. 1857 Gustav Simon died in the by Heinrich Laehr founded mental hospital Schweizerhof in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

Works

• De aquae Binelli et kreosoti virtute styptica. Dissertation to obtain the doctorate degree, Berlin, 1833
• About a mite living in the sick and normal hair sacs of humans. Berlin, 1842
• The skin diseases explained through anatomical studies. Berlin, 1848
• Report on the department for syphilis in 1849. Charité-Annalen, Berlin, 1849
• About the treatment of the male Tripper with caustic injections. Charité annals, Berlin, 1853

literature

• Gustav Simon: The skin diseases explained through anatomical examinations. New edition of the work from 1848, Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007 ISBN 3-836-40791-4
• Christoph Löser and Bernd Plewig (eds.): Pantheon of dermatology. Outstanding historical figures. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 959-961 ISBN 978-3-540-34090-4

Web links

• Karl Gustav Theodor Simon on Who named it? (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst G. Jung: 30 Years of Current Dermatology: an anniversary volume. Thieme, Stuttgart 2005, p. 46 ISBN 3-131-41391-3
2. ^ Ferdinand von Hebra: Atlas of the skin diseases . Imperial Academy of Sciences, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1856 Online
3. ↑ Gustav Simon: About a mite living in the sick and normal hair sacks of humans. Archive for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine, pp. 218–249, Berlin 1842
4. ↑ Gustav Simon: The skin diseases explained by anatomical examinations. 2nd edition, G. Reimer, Berlin 1851 Digitized at Google Books
5. ↑ David A. Mehregan: Dermatopathology: Past and Present. Journal of The Egyptian Women's Dermatologic Society, 3, 1, p. 1, 2006 Online ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB) 
6. ^ GA Rost and K. Winkler: A short chronicle of the development of dermatology in Berlin. In: Archive for Dermatological Research , 244, p. 6, 1972