Johannes Orth (doctor)
Johannes Orth (born January 14, 1847 in Wallmerod , † January 13, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German pathologist.
Life
Orth studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1866 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . After the state examination, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Since he was aiming for a career in pathology , he went in 1872 as an assistant to Rudolf Virchow in Berlin. In 1878 he was appointed professor at the Georg August University in Göttingen . He stayed there until 1902 when he was called back to Berlin to succeed Virchow. In 1884 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Johannes Orth was married to Charlotte Orth geb. by Ibell (1854-1911). The Orth couple had no biological children and adopted Emma Minna Grantke (1888–1971) and Ralf (details unknown). Emma Minna Orth married Heinrich Löhe in 1909 .
Johannes Orth died in 1923, one day before his 76th birthday, of inflammation of the biliary tract ( cholangitis ) after suffering multiple jaundice attacks due to gallstones. On the cemetery Grunewald his grave is today. From 1987 to 2009 it was dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .
plant
Orth published the description of a pronounced yellowing of the brain with emphasis on the basal ganglia in a newborn in Virchow's work . With the symptoms of neonatal jaundice , she had died for no apparent cause. This is considered to be the first description of bilirubin encephalopathy , even if the term was coined later by Georg Schmorl . Orth later mainly dealt with infections and tuberculosis . He published widely available textbooks and was reputed to be an excellent university professor.
literature
- Hans Lufft: The pathological anatomy in Göttingen under Johannes Orth (1878-1902) . Diss. Univ. Göttingen 1938.
- Th. WR Hansen: Pioneers in the scientific study of neonatal jaundice and Kernicterus . Pediatrics 106 (2000), p. 15 ISSN 0031-4005
- Katja Klaus: Johannes Orth and his contribution to pathology . Diss. Charité 2006.
Web links
- Peter Voswinckel: Orth, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).
- List of publications by Johannes Orth at the academy library of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (PDF file; 89 kB)
- Julius Pagel: Orth, Johannes , in: Biographical Lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . 1901, col. 1236
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 127
- ↑ Dissertation: Studies on lymphatic development .
- ↑ See also Johannes Orth: Commemorative speech on Virchow in the Berlin Medical Society on October 29, 1902.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orth, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wallmerod |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1923 |
| Place of death | Berlin |