Otto Lubarsch

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Otto Lubarsch

Otto Lubarsch (born January 4, 1860 in Berlin ; † April 1, 1933 there ) was a German pathologist .

Life

The son of a Jewish grain merchant and bank director studied philosophy , natural sciences and medicine at the University of Leipzig , the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , the University of Jena , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , then again in Heidelberg and finally at the Kaiser-Wilhelms- University of Strasbourg . In the summer semester of 1880 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . He was a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity only for the duration of his stay in the summer semester of 1881 . 1883 doctorate he in Strasbourg Dr. med.

Between 1885 and 1899 he was an assistant, first at Hugo Kronecker's Physiological Institute in Bern, then at the Pathological Institutes in Gießen , Breslau and Zurich , where he became a private lecturer in 1890. In 1894 he became an associate professor for anatomy and pathology in Rostock . In 1899 he took over the management of the pathological-anatomical department at the Hygiene Institute in Poznan . In the winter semester of 1903/04 he was also a lecturer in medicine at the Royal Academy in Posen . In 1905 he became director of the Institute for Pathology and Bacteriology in Zwickau . Two years later, Lubarsch received a full professorship at the new Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1913 he moved to the chair at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1917 to 1928 he succeeded Johannes Orth as director of the Pathological Institute founded by Rudolf Virchow and held the chair for pathology at the Charité in Berlin. Also as Orth's successor, he took over the publication of the medical journal Virchows Archiv together with David Paul von Hansemann and directed it alone after von Hansemann's death in 1920. With Friedrich Henke (1868–1943) he was editor of the Henke-Lubarsch Handbook of Special Pathological Anatomy and Histology (12 vols., 1924–1952). Henke's planning began as early as 1912. Otto Lubarsch was the editor until 1931, then Robert Rössle until 1955 and then Erwin Uehlinger . With the veterinarian Robert von Ostertag he founded the journal Results of the general pathology and pathological anatomy of humans and animals in 1896 . His students included the Jewish bacteriologist and pathologist Max Kuczynski and the later Nobel Prize winner Werner Forßmann . In 1932 Lubarsch was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He died of a heart attack .

tomb

He is buried in the old garrison cemetery in Berlin-Mitte.

Medical research

Carcinoid in the wall of the small intestine

Otto Lubarsch dealt with various questions in anatomy, pathology and histology. He focused on the investigation of ulcers and tumors and in 1888, after Theodor Langhans, was one of the first to present a detailed description of carcinoids of the small intestine based on descriptions of the tumors in two patients.

The Lubarsch Islands and the Lubarsch-Pick Syndrome are named after Lubarsch .

Political activity

As a Protestant of Jewish origin, Lubarsch was involved in the Pan-German Association and in the German National People's Party . In 1926 he became chairman of the "Reich Committee for German National University Teachers". Accordingly, Lubarsch made a name for himself as a militant opponent of the Weimar Republic , which he characterized as the "time of party violence". His pupil Forßmann described him as a “fanatical monarchist” and “nationalist with pan-German characteristics” who, in his German foolishness, turned into an almost ridiculous linguistic confusion. He named it as "main body artery you like extension", the Lubarsch for naming a through syphilis caused aortic aneurysm used. This way of dealing with the German language was also emphasized and praised in his obituary by Robert Rössle , who described Lubarsch's work for Virchow's archive: "Above all, it expresses his striving for a clean German language, which stemmed from a hot patriotic feeling." Rössle, however, also shows that "his fight against foreign words occasionally caused discomfort to some employees at Virchow's archive." In addition, according to Forßmann, Lubarsch was characterized by pronounced anti - Semitic agitation and support for the "anti-Semitic goals of the National Socialist movement" despite his Jewish descent . Kurt Tucholsky attacked Lubarsch because of his anti-Semitic attacks in the poem Section published in 1927 .

Works

  • On the primary cancer of the ileum, together with remarks on the simultaneous occurrence of cancer and tuberculosis. Virchow's Archive for Pathological Anatomy 111, 1888; Pp. 280-317.
  • Investigations into the causes of innate and adaptive immunity (1896)
  • On the doctrine of tumors and infectious diseases (1899)
  • Pathological anatomy and cancer research (1902)
  • On the question of university reform (1919)
  • with Friedrich Henke: Handbook of special pathological anatomy and histology. 12 volumes, Berlin 1924–1952.
  • General and special pathological histology of radiation effects (1928)
  • An eventful scholarly life: memories and experiences. Struggles and thoughts. Springer, Berlin 1931 (autobiography).

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Lubarsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Diedrich Reinbach (ed.): Golden book of the fraternity Allemannia zu Heidelberg . Revised for the 150th Foundation Festival 2006. Public version. Burschenschaft Allemannia, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 226–227 ( Festschrift for the 150th Foundation Festival. Vol. 1)
  2. ↑ Cay-Rüdiger Prüll: Lubarsch, Otto. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 868.
  3. ↑ Christoph Schutte: The Royal Academy in Posen (1903-1919) and other cultural institutions in the context of the policy for the "elevation of Germanness" . Verlag Herder-Institut, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87969-343-6 , p. 398 ( materials and studies on East Central Europe research 19)
  4. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / denkmaeler.charite.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Charité website . Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c d Robert Rössle : Otto Lubarsch. Obituary for Otto Lubarsch in Virchow's Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine 290 (1), August 18, 1933; Pp. 1-2.
  6. ↑ Götze, Springer-Verlag, Volume 2, Springer 1994, p. 301
  7. ↑ a b c Werner Forßmann: Self-experiment. Memories of a surgeon. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972; P. 47.
  8. ↑ Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors (NET) . Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
  9. ↑ Scott N. Pinchot, Kyle Holen, Rebecca S. Sippel, Herbert Chen: Carcinoid Tumors. The Oncologist, December 2008 ( full text ), doi : 10.1634 / theoncologist.2008-0207
  10. ↑ Michael Grüttner among others: The Berlin University between the world wars 1918-1945. Berlin 2012 (= History of the University of Unter den Linden , Vol. 2), p. 151 f.
  11. ^ Theobald Tiger: Section . In: Die Weltbühne of August 23, 1927, No. 34, p. 304, online at zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Lubarsch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1933
Place of death Berlin