Heinrich Auspitz

Heinrich Auspitz

Carl Heinrich Auspitz (born September 2, 1835 in Nikolsburg (Mikulov) , † May 23, 1886 in Vienna ) was an Austrian dermatologist .

biography

Heinrich Auspitz was born as the son of the surgeon Moritz Auspitz (1803-1880) in Moravia , his younger brother was Leopold Auspitz (* December 5, 1838, † February 23, 1907), kk major general and writer . In 1840 his father took up a job at the Jewish hospital in Vienna to enable his sons to get a better education. He was the patron saint of surgery in Nikolsburg , now he was doing his Matura in addition to his work in order to obtain a doctorate and, after 1848, to take over the position of primary surgeon.

Heinrich graduated from high school, studied medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1858 . Among his teachers was the dermatologist Ferdinand von Hebra , with whose son Hans he was close friends. In 1863 Auspitz received his habilitation for dermatology and syphilidology at the University of Vienna . From 1864 Auspitz worked at the Histological Institute of Carl Wedl .

On July 16, 1865 he married the most gifted student of Smetana , Auguste Kolářova (born March 19, 1844 in Prague ; † December 23, 1878), who became known as a pianist and composer under the name of Auguste Auspitz-Kolár.

Together with Filip Josef Pick (1834–1910), professor in Prague, he founded the first German-language journal for dermatology, the Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis, in 1869 . His study "On the dependence of epidermis and corium " was published in 1870, but he did not get a job at a clinic. Then he and his colleagues opened the General Polyclinic Vienna with various departments, of which he became director in 1872. As an associate professor from 1875, the following year he introduced curettage and chemosurgery in the treatment of skin diseases. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy . In 1884 he became a full professor and director of the second department for syphilis in the Vienna General Hospital . When he died of a heart condition in 1886, he had also survived his son Hans (* around 1875; † January 1879). He was buried on May 25, 1886 in the Vienna Central Cemetery in the family grave site 16 / E / 3/12.

Heinrich Auspitz Prize

The Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venerology (ÖGDV) awards the "Heinrich Auspitz Prize" in his honor . It has been awarded annually since 2005 and is endowed with 10,000 euros .

Auspitz phenomenon

An important diagnostic phenomenon of psoriasis vulgaris . After scraping off the parakeratotic horny layer and opening the capillaries located just below the thinned epidermis, punctiform bleeding can be observed, known as the "sign of bloody dew" or the "Auspitz phenomenon" . This phenomenon was already described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Hebra in his "Atlas of Skin Diseases" . Since Auspitz made this diagnostic feature known as such, it is now associated with his name.

Works

• Smallpox pamphlets (= Indiana State Board of Health, Louisiana). 1842.
• About the mechanical treatment of skin diseases.
• About the cell infiltration of the dermis in lupus, syphilis and scrofulose. Carl Ueberreuter, 1864.
• The doctrines of syphilitic contagium and their actual justification. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1866. (Reprint: BiblioBazaar 2010, ISBN 978-1-145-86598-3 )
• with Seymour Basch: Studies on the anatomy of the peeling process. G. Reimer, 186x
• The soap and its effect on healthy and sick skin. Teudler, 1867.
• On the absorption of undissolved substances in mammals. Ueberreuter, 1871.
• About venous congestion in the skin. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1874.
• The bubons of the groin. Two lectures given at the general polyclinic in Vienna in October 1873 (= Wiener Klinik. Issue 12). 1875.
• On the pathology of initial syphilitic sclerosis. 1877.
• About lupus syphiliticus and scrophulosus. 1878.
• About excision of the initial syphilitic sclerosis. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1878.
• System of skin diseases. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1881.
• System of skin diseases. Volume 14, second half, Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1881.
• Vienna's sanitary conditions and facilities: Declaration to the members of the IX. Assembly of the German Association for Public Health Care and the III. Meeting of the Association for Health Technology in Vienna September 1881. LW Seidel & Sohn, 1881.
• For the treatment of skin diseases: By applying medicinal substances to the skin in thin, firmly adhering layers. 1883.
• Franz von Rinecker in Würzburg. 1883.
• Handbook of Skin Diseases. FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1883.
• Handbook of Skin Diseases. FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1884.
• Adrien Doyon (translation): Traite de Pathologie et de Therapeutique Generales des Maladies de la Peau. Paris 1887.
• Archives of Dermatology and Syphilis. Second year, Prague 1870.
• Archives of Dermatology and Syphilis. Reprint BiblioBazaar 2010, ISBN 978-1-147-62844-9 .
• Archives of Dermatology and Syphilis. Reprint BiblioBazaar 2010, ISBN 978-1-147-63657-4 .

swell

• Moritz Benedikt: From my life. Memories and discussions. Publishing bookstore Carl Konegen (Ernst Stülpnagel), Vienna 1906, OCLC 476459687 .
• Ludwig Eisenberg, Richard Croner: The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Second volume, C. Daberkow's Verlag, Vienna 1893, OCLC 163022727 , p. 585.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willi Ule, Hermann Knoblauch: History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Printed by Blochmann and Son, Dresden / Halle 1889, p. 217.
2. ^ The Jewish Encyclopedia. Volume II: Apocrypha – Benash. Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York / London 1912, p. 317.
3. ↑ MUGI Music and Gender on the Internet ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburg University of Music and Theater 
4. ^ Cemetery database
5. ↑ Information on the application for the Heinrich Auspitz Prize

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Auspitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Auspitz Heinrich, dermatologist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 37.
• Entry on Heinrich Auspitz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )