Moritz Roth
Moritz Roth (born December 25, 1839 in Basel , † November 4, 1914 in Gottlieben ) was a Swiss pathologist . He was a professor for this subject at the University of Basel .
Life
Roth studied medicine in Basel and at the universities of Würzburg , Göttingen and Berlin . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1864 and worked there as a private lecturer from 1866. In 1868 he went to Greifswald , where he stayed until 1872. In that year he received a call to Basel to succeed Carl Ernst Emil Hoffmann as an associate professor and from 1874 as a full professor . Until 1898 Roth taught pathological anatomy in Basel; his successor was Eduard Kaufmann .
While he was working in Basel, Roth had the first microscope purchased for use in the Institute of Pathology; in addition, its new building fell during his tenure. Moritz Roth occupied himself with a. in old age with a medical history ; he wrote a large number of articles on the subject and in 1892 published a detailed biography of the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius , which was one of his main research topics.
The Roth spots ( Roth's spots ) are named after the pathologist .
Fonts (selection)
- Andreas Vesalius Bruxellensis. G. Reimer, Berlin 1892. ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine: Brief History of Pathology Basel - From the Beginnings to Today
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Roth: About retinal affections in wound fever. I. Embolic panophthalmitis. In: German Journal for Surgery , Leipzig, 1872, 1: 471–484. Full text
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| SURNAME | Roth, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1914 |
| Place of death | Love God |