Morris Simmonds

Morris Simmonds (born January 14, 1855 in Saint Thomas , Danish West Indies , † September 4, 1925 in Hamburg ) was a German-Jewish pathologist.

Life

Simmonds was born on the Danish island of Sankt Thomas in the Caribbean; the family moved to Hamburg as early as 1861. He attended the Johanneum's school of scholars . After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the Eberhard Karls University . In 1873 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He passed the medical state examination in Kiel in 1879 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. After a few years as an assistant doctor in Kiel and at the AK St. Georg , he established himself as a general practitioner in Hamburg. He also worked in the field of pathology. In 1889 he took over the prosecution of the St. Georg Hospital, which he modernized in 1905 when the hospital was reorganized.

In accordance with his work as a pathologist at a central city hospital, he conducted research in several areas. He published a total of 121 publications on the male sexual organ , tuberculosis , diabetes mellitus , cholera , diseases of the endocrine glands and the like. a. He was the first to describe panhypopituitarism in 1914. As Simmonds disease, it is associated with his name.

Publications

• About hypophysis with fatal outcome. German Medical Weekly 40 (1914), no. 7, p. 322 f.

literature

• Theodor Fahr : M. Simmonds †. In: Central sheet for general pathology and pathological anatomy. Vol. 37 (1926), pp. 461-465 (with list of publications).
• Simmonds, Morris. German Biographical Archive , New Series DBA II, DBA III, 1960–1999.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 192/43.
2. ↑ Dissertation: A contribution to the statistics and anatomy of tuberculosis in childhood .