Moritz Heinrich Romberg
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (born November 11, 1795 in Meiningen ; † June 16, 1873 in Berlin ) was a German internist, neurologist and neuropathologist.
Life
Moritz Romberg was the son of a businessman and studied medicine in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1817 with a thesis on rickets . He then stayed in Vienna for study purposes. Romberg lived and worked for many years in Berlin-Mitte , including from 1820 to 1845 as a doctor for the poor . In 1830 he qualified as a professor for special pathology and therapy. He was the head of the Medical Polyclinic of the Berlin Charité and is considered a co-founder of the “German neurological school” and founder of clinical neurology as a scientific discipline.
His textbook on nervous diseases was the first neurology textbook to be translated and reprinted more frequently. The Romberg phenomenon , also known as the Romberg symbol , is named after him : When standing with closed legs, feet and eyes, swaying indicates brain or spinal cord damage. The obturator neuralgia , also known as Howship-Romberg syndrome , is named after him and the English surgeon John Howship (1781–1841). The Parry-Romberg syndrome is also to Moritz Heinrich Romberg and British Caleb Hillier Parry named.
Moritz Heinrich Romberg is buried in the Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg. His grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave . A street in his hometown Meiningen is named after him.
Works
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Text-book of nervous diseases in humans. Berlin 1840-1846.
- Textbook of Nerve Diseases of Man. Berlin: Duncker, 1853 (English version: A manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man. London 1853. Translated by Edward Sieveking ; Russian version: Ромберг М.Г .: Руководство к изучению нервных кормам дорхорманых Гервных бормам дорхормама дорхормама дорхорманеа медицины ... / Пер. с 3-го испр. изд. студенты Киев. ун-та.- Kiev, 1860).
literature
- Julius Pagel : Romberg, Moritz Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 115 f.
- Jürgen Peiffer: Romberg, Moritz Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 21 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Andreas Bolgien: The history of the trophoneuroses with special consideration Moritz Heinrich Rombergs (1795–1873) and hemiatrophy. In: Würzburger medical history reports , Volume 25, 2006, pp. 175–203.
- Roland Schiffter: The father of clinical neurology. The doctor Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795–1873) . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 9, 1999, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 67-72 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Romberg, Moritz Heinrich. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1264.
- Bernd Holdorff: The neurology in Berlin, 1840-1945. Rise and fall. With a contribution by Roland Schiffter . - Berlin, Leipzig: Hentrich and Hentrich Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3-95565-291-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Moritz Heinrich Romberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- JMS Pearce: Romberg and his sign
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Romberg, Moritz Heinrich. 2005, p. 1264.
- ↑ Johannes Pantel: Neurology, Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. Course and dynamics of a historical dispute. In: Würzburger medical historical reports , Volume 11, 1993, pp. 77-99; here: p. 77.
- ↑ Andreas Bolgien: The history of the trophoneuroses […]. 2006, p. 177.
- ↑ Andreas Bolgien: The history of the trophoneuroses […]. 2006, passim.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Romberg, Moritz Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meiningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1873 |
| Place of death | Berlin |