Karl Ernst Ranke

Karl Ernst Ranke (born January 29, 1870 in Munich ; † November 9, 1926 there ) was a German internist .

Life

Karl Ernst Ranke was born as the son of the anthropologist Johannes Ranke . He studied medicine at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1895. Ranke then worked as an assistant at the Dr. von Hauner's Children's Hospital , which his uncle Heinrich von Ranke ran. In 1896 he carried out a research trip to the Rio Xingu in Brazil with Herrmann Meyer (1871–1932) . On his return he was two more years at the Children's Hospital of his uncle worked and worked as a doctor in a tuberculosis - sanatorium in Arosa . In 1906 Ranke came back to Munich. He practiced as a pediatrician and specialized in lung diseases. He also worked as a school doctor and emerged as an expert on tuberculosis. In 1915 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine and in 1921 became an associate professor. He headed the “welfare center for lung patients” in Munich.

Ranke's tuberculosis research, which was based on years of research at the Pathological Institute in Munich, developed the theory of "three stages" ( " Ranke stages " ) from 1916 onwards . Today this is considered to be the “classic” classification of tuberculosis according to clinical and pathological-anatomical aspects.

In addition to medicine, Karl Ernst Ranke dealt with philosophy, in particular with Immanuel Kant .

literature

• Eberhard J. Wormer :  Ranke, Karl Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 144 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Ernst Ranke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Ernst Ranke , Who Named It (English dictionary of medical deonyms )