Johannes Fabry
Johannes Fabry ( Johann Hubert Fabry ; born June 1, 1860 in Jülich , † June 29, 1930 in Dortmund ) was a German doctor ; his specialty was dermatology .
Life
Johannes Fabry came from a merchant family from Jülich. The father ran a small business there. Johannes Fabry had ten siblings. He was the oldest brother of Hermann Hubert Fabry and the uncle of Hermann Josef Hubert Carl Fabry .
He completed his medical studies in Bern and Berlin . During his studies he lost a leg in a sports accident and from then on concentrated on dermatology. He was trained in Bonn at the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases under Joseph Doutrelepont , and later in Zurich under Hugo Ribbert . In 1885 Fabry received his doctorate on muscular torticollis in Bonn . In 1889 he settled in Dortmund and in 1900 founded the dermatology clinic in the Louisen Hospital (today Dortmund City Hospital ) and was its medical director until 1927. On July 31, 1919, Fabry was appointed professor. He established the leading rank of the skin clinic.
Fabry dealt with almost all areas of dermatology. The hereditary disease Fabry disease , which he first described in 1898 at the same time as William Anderson , is named after him. He also developed the Fabry alcohol, named after him, for the treatment of acne.
literature
- Fabry, Johann. In: Erhard Riecke (ed.): German dermatologist calendar. Voss, Leipzig 1929 (bibliography).
- Albrecht Scholz: History of Dermatology. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1999.
- Hermann Fabry: An historical overview of Fabry disease. In: Journal of inherited metabolic disease. ISSN 0141-8955 , Volume 24, Supplement 2, April 2001, pp. 3-7, doi: 10.1023 / A: 1012443001449 , PMID 11758677 .
- Peter Altmeyer (Ed.): 100 Years of Dermatology Bochum. Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum 2012.
Web links
- Johannes Fabry - whonamedit.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Fabry: A contribution to the knowledge of the purpura haemorrhagica nodularis (Purpura papulosa haemorrhagica Hebrae). In: Archives for Dermatology and Syphilis . Volume 42, 1898, pp. 187-200.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabry, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fabry, Johann Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor specializing in dermatology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jülich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1930 |
| Place of death | Dortmund |