Johannes Werther

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Johannes Werther (born March 31, 1865 in Dresden ; † June 20, 1936 in Tolkewitz , Dresden; full name: Johannes Friedrich Rudolf Werther ) was a German dermatologist and professor at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital in Dresden.

He worked on sexually transmitted diseases , skin tuberculosis ( lupus vulgaris ) and blistering skin diseases ( bullous dermatoses ); later he devoted himself to psychogenic skin diseases. His research on the diagnosis and therapy of gonorrhea ("gonorrhea") and on the therapy of neurolues ( neurosyphilis ) received wide attention as well as confirmation or deepening through more recent work. Werther's description of the nevus syringadenomatosus papilliferus (also: naevus syringocystadenomatosus papilliferus ) is regarded as the first in German-speaking countries.

Werther founded the Friedrichstadt moulagen collection and gave its name to the rare Werther tumor he described in 1910 and Werther's syndrome ( dermatitis nodularis necroticans ), a variant of Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome (named after Henri Gougerot and Maximillian Ruiter ).

biography

The Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital

Johannes Werther was born in Dresden as the third of six children of civil engineer Gustav Werther and his wife Emma, ​​daughter of the lawyer and royal Saxon civil servant Gustav Spitzner . After graduating from high school there, Werther studied medicine in Leipzig from 1884 to 1889 ; It is not known whether he was influenced by his Dresden uncle Carl Spitzner , who also completed his medical studies there, when choosing a university . After receiving his doctorate on Weil's disease in 1889, he first went to the skin department ( 2nd external department , created as a department for skin and venereal diseases and minor surgery ) of the Dresden- Friedrichstadt city ​​hospital for specialist training , and later also to the Berlin Charité . Back in Dresden, Werther headed the 2nd External Department from 1901. During this time he was able to expand the department and its equipment, in particular with a laboratory, microscope, photograph, examination and operating room and in 1907 with an X-ray machine and quartz lamp, which allowed the clinic to carry out dermatological radiation therapy.

In 1925, Werther and the resident dermatologist Eugen Galewsky (1864–1935) hosted the 14th Congress of the German Dermatological Society - an honor that expresses the recognition of Werther and Galewsky's work by their contemporaries. In 1930 Werther gave up the management of the external department, his successor was Hans Martenstein.

Werther was married to Pauline Brodersen (1871–1948) and had four daughters. He died on June 20, 1936 in the Tolkewitz district of Dresden and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

The Friedrichstadt moulage collection

In 1903, Werther began to build up a moulage collection, which after leaving hospital became known as the “Friedrichstadt moulage collection”. Moulages - wax molds of diseased parts of the body - were mainly used for teaching and documentation purposes during this time, when color photography was not yet of the later quality, but also for deterrence in the context of health education. In 1925 Werther and the senior physician of the department, Max Funfack (1895–1972), whose doctoral supervisor Werther had been, published the "Catalog of the wax collection of the external department of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt City Hospital", to which supplements were published in 1927 and 1930; Especially at the end of the twenties, Werther was able to expand the collection considerably, so that in 1930 it reached 368 wax models. Under Werther's successor in the city hospital, Hans Martenstein, only a few exhibits were added. Other doctors who worked with the moulages or published about them were Professors Eugen Galewsky and Karl Linser.

After the collection survived the Second World War unscathed, it was handed over to the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden in 1958 . Initial plans to build a large collection of medical wax models based on this were not implemented. Most of the collection was destroyed in the post-war chaos. Today only 60 of the moulages have survived, and they too are - compared to the models in the moulage collection in Kiel - in poor condition, in need of restoration (as of November 2009). Today 42 of the moulages are again in the Friedrichstadt hospital, the other 18 are part of the moulage collection of the Hygiene Museum, but could be assigned to the Friedrichstadt collection; some well-preserved moulages are on display in the Hygiene Museum.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Dermatology Clinic, article by G. Hansel and U. Wollina in Current Dermatology (31), 2005 Georg Thieme Verlag, pp. 133–135 on the history of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital (accessed November 21, 2017)
  2. ↑ a b cf. also: Wilbert Sachs & George M. Lewis (1937). Nevus syringadenomatosus papilliferus (Werther). Report of Five Cases. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology , 36 (6), pp. 1202-1209 (accessed November 25, 2015)
  3. ^ Werther's publication: Johannes Werther (1913). Syringadenoma papilliferum. Archives for Dermatology and Syphilis , 116, pp. 865–876.
  4. ^ A b c d G. Hansel, U. Wollina: On the history of the skin clinic Dresden-Friedrichstadt. In: Current Dermatology. 31, 2005, p. 133, doi : 10.1055 / s-2005-861261 .
  5. ↑ Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome on Who Named It? (English; accessed November 20, 2010)
  6. ↑ a b c Internet portal questionnaire - www.moulagen.de - The Moulagen Collection of the Dresden Friedrichstadt Hospital, as of November 8, 2009 (Dr. Gesina Hansel)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Completed questionnaire to the archive for medical wax images (moulages) of the Berlin Charité ( PDF file; accessed November 21, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moulagen.de  
  7. ↑ The moulage collection of the Friedrichstadt hospital in Dresden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the pages of the archive for medical wax pictures (moulages) of the Berlin Charité (accessed November 21, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moulagen.de  
  8. ^ Moulages from Alfons Kröner pages of the University Dermatology Clinic Kiel (accessed November 21, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Werther, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1936
Place of death Tolkewitz , Dresden