Karl Lennert
Karl Lennert (born June 4, 1921 in Fürth ; † August 27, 2012 in Kiel ) was a German pathologist who mainly dealt with lymphoma and leukemia .
Life
After graduating from high school in Fürth , Lennert studied human medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen from 1939 to 1945 . Until 1950 he was an assistant at the local institute for pathology. After a year at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen , he went to the pathology department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he completed his habilitation on lymphogranulomatosis . His boss Arnold Lauche couldn't do too much with the “microcellular small stuff”.
In 1963 Lennert accepted the call of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel to her chair . As director of the Pathological Institute, he made Kiel the world's first address in hematopathology . Three quarters of his employees were the sons of medical professors. In his institute, the lights rarely went out before midnight. Lennert's students included Reza Parwaresch and the ordinaries in Essen ( Lutz-Dietrich Leder ), Berlin ( Harald Stein ), Frankfurt am Main ( Martin-Leo Hansmann ), Göttingen ( Heinz-Joachim Radzun ), Lübeck ( Alfred Christian Feller ) and Würzburg ( Hans Konrad Müller-Hermelink ). In the Collaborative Research Center 111 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft clinicians as habilitation Arnulf Thiede and tungsten Sterry .
Lennert was founding president of the European Association of Hematopathology . In 1989 he retired .
Kiel classification
Lennert began to classify malignant lymph node tumors ( non-Hodgkin lymphomas ) around 1975 according to a system that became established in Europe as the Kiel Classification . In the USA, the Lukes-Collins classification came up at the same time. Both were later replaced by other classifications ( Revised European American Lymphoma Classification (REAL) 1994, WHO classification around 2001).
In order not to let Lennert's unique archive go under when he retired, Uwe Barschel promised him to set up a generously equipped private institute in Kiel. Lennert's hopes were dashed with the Barschel affair .
Honors
- Member of the Leopoldina (1966)
- Schleiden Medal of the Leopoldina (1980)
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986)
- Robert Koch Medal (1993)
- Science Award of the City of Kiel (2001)
- Rudolf Virchow Medal
- Ernst Jung Prize
- Name of the cancer center of the Kiel University Hospital in Karl-Lennert-Krebscentrum Nord (2013)
- Honorary doctorates
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2007)
- Ghent University
- University of Madrid
- University of Cologne
- University of Northwest China
Fonts
- Pathology of the cervical lymph nodes , Springer 1964
- with Yoshitaka Mori: Electron microscopic atlas of lymph node cytology and pathology , Springer 1969
- with Harald Stein : Histopathology of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas: based on the Kiel classification , Springer 1981, 2nd edition 1992, 3rd edition as Histopathology of nodal and extra nodal Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas , completely revised by Alfred C. Feller , Jacques Diebold, Springer 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Lennert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Honorary doctorate in Erlangen
- For the 90th birthday, Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2011
- Habilitation in Kiel Pathology
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lennert, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist and professor emeritus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 2012 |
| Place of death | Kiel |