Marie Unna

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Marie Unna (born June 3, 1881 in Schewen (West Prussia), today Szewa (Poland), as Marie Boehm ; † December 23, 1977 in Hamburg ) was a German dermatologist.

Life

Gravestone in the women's garden

Marie Unna was the daughter of a landowner and married to the dermatologist Karl Unna (1880–1964), with whom she had three children. Her father-in-law was the dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna . The son Klaus Unna became a pharmacologist . He emigrated to Austria in 1933 and to the USA in 1937.

Marie Unna's tombstone is in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

1925 Marie Unna described as the first in a north German family a new, previously unknown form of alopecia , the autosomal - dominant inherited. This hereditary disease is now called hereditary congenital hypotrichosis type Marie Unna or also Unna syndrome .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation: Doctors in the Empire. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. Retrieved November 24, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Biography on the website of the women's garden. Accessed on September 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ M. Unna: About Hypotrichosis congenita hereditaria. In: Derm Wschr 81, 1925, pp. 1167-1178.
  4. ↑ M. van Steensel et al: The Gene for Hypotrichosis of Marie Unna Maps between D8S258 and D8S298: Exclusion of the hr Gene by cDNA and Genomic Sequencing. In: AJHG 65, 1999, pp. 413-419. doi : 10.1086 / 302506
personal data
SURNAME Unna, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Schewen
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1977
Place of death Hamburg