Hugo Ribbert

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Moritz Wilhelm Hugo Ribbert (born March 1, 1855 in Elsey , today Hagen-Hohenlimburg , † November 6, 1920 in Bonn ) was a German pathologist , university professor and textbook author. Ribbert is considered to be the first to describe cytomegaly .

His standard textbook on general pathology and pathological anatomy , founded in 1901, introduced generations of German medical students to the subject of pathology. It reached 33 editions and was continued for over 90 years by well-known pathologists.

Life

Ribbert was born as the son of Wilhelm Ribbert and his wife Auguste, geb. Polscher, born in the village of Elsey, today Hagen-Hohenlimburg. He studied mainly in Bonn and visited the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg for one semester . He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1878. Ribbert initially worked as an assistant at the pathological institute of Bonn University under Karl Köster (1843-1904). He completed his habilitation in 1880 and in 1883 became an associate professor for pathological anatomy and general pathology in Bonn. In 1892 he was appointed full professor and director of the pathological institute in succession to Edwin Klebs at the University of Zurich . In 1900 Ribbert went to Marburg in the same capacity . In 1903 he was appointed to Göttingen as the successor to Johannes Orth and in 1905 to his home university in Bonn as the successor to his teacher Karl Köster. In 1916/17 Ribbert was rector of Bonn University. In 1892 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

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Ribbert's main areas of work included the pathology of inflammation with leukocyte migration and chemotaxis , oncology ( Cohnheim- Ribbert theory of embryonic carcinogenesis ), symptoms of aging , questions of regeneration , the definition of disease, constitution and heredity as well as the physiology and pathology of the kidney .

The Cohnheim-Ribbert theory of embryonic cancer development was scientifically very influential at the beginning of the 20th century. Their hypothesis stated that undifferentiated embryonic cells with growth potential remained in the human organism, which, under certain influences, could develop unchecked, degenerate growth. Animal implantations of embryonic tissue could not provide any convincing evidence for this hypothesis.

Ribbert is now considered to be the first to describe cytomegaly . Although in his first report in 1881 he still correctly assumed cell pathological changes from today's point of view, in 1904 he changed his interpretation of the findings and interpreted the observed enlarged cells as parasites.

Ribbert was an extremely prolific scientist: he published about 300 papers on many aspects of pathology and microbiology. He is said to have only rarely resorted to the work of assistants or auxiliary staff:

“He has never had a histological section made for his numerous works by an assistant or servant, he has never had a laboratory assistant, never even a writing aid. He embedded everything himself in celloidin, cut it himself and colored it himself. "

- Bernhard Fischer-Wasels : 1920.

Ribbert's richly illustrated " textbook on general pathology and pathological anatomy ", first published in 1901, set didactic standards in the transfer of knowledge in pathology. After Ribbert's death, it was initially continued by Mönckeberg and then by Sternberg . When it was taken over by Herwig Hamperl in 1938, the textbook as » Ribbert-Hamperl « reached the peak of its popularity. Its 33 editions introduced generations of German medical students to the subject of pathology. The last edition was published in 1990 by Max Eder and Peter Gedigk.

Fonts (excerpt)

  • Textbook of pathological histology for students and doctors. Cohen, Bonn 1896.
  • The teachings of the nature of diseases in their historical development. Cohen, Bonn 1899.
  • Textbook of general pathology and pathological anatomy. Vogel, Bonn 1901.
  • Textbook of special pathology and special pathological anatomy. Vogel, Bonn 1902.
  • Tumor theory for doctors and students. Cohen, Bonn 1904.
  • The essence of the disease. Cohen, Bonn 1909.
  • Human carcinoma, its structure, its growth, its origin. Cohen, Bonn 1911.
  • The importance of diseases for human development. Cohen, Bonn 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. Evangelical Church Elsey: Church Book 1715-1930. Accessed May 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Hugo Ribbert: War and disease. Speech given at the beginning of the rectorate of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität on October 18, 1916. Historical Commission Munich. Accessed May 10, 2011.
  3. Karlheinz Lüdtke: On the decidability of scientific controversies - discussed using the example of a dispute in earlier tumor research. ( Memento from January 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2002. Accessed May 10, 2011.
  4. CJ Andrä (editor): Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. XXXVIII. Vintage. Cohen, Bonn 1881, pp. 161-162.
  5. Ribbert H. On protozoa-like cells in the kidney of a syphilitic newborn and in the parotid of children. Centralbl Allg Pathol, 1904; 15: 945-948.
  6. Matthias J. Reddehase: Preface. From protozoan to proteomics. In: Matthias J. Reddehase (Ed.): Cytomegaloviruses: molecular biology and immunology. Caister, Wymondham 2006, ISBN 1-904-45502-6 , pp. XXIV-XXV ( digitized ).
  7. ^ Salmonsen's Konversationsleksikon: Hugo Ribbert. Schultz, Copenhagen 1926.
  8. Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67490-X , pp. 350–351.
  9. ^ Fischer-Wasels B. Hugo Ribbert. Münch Med Wschr. 1920; 67: 1476-1477.
  10. Seifert G. Book Reviews. Klin Wschr. 1991; 69: 302. doi : 10.1007 / BF01644761

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