Paul Kimmelstiel

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Paul Herbert Kimmelstiel (born March 21, 1900 in Hamburg , † October 7, 1970 in Oklahoma City ) was a German-American pathologist . Together with Clifford Wilson, he is considered to be the first to describe diabetic nephropathy . This is therefore also known as the Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome .

Life

Stumbling blocks in front of the entrance to the main building O 10 of the Hamburg University Hospital, including a stumbling block for Paul Kimmelstiel

Kimmelstiel was born in 1900 as the son of a Hamburg merchant family of Jewish descent and later studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg , Kiel , Munich , Bonn and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1923 as Dr. med. and completed his habilitation in 1930 for pathology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he had to leave Germany with his wife and two small children and emigrated to the USA .

There he was able to work at Harvard University as a pathologist under George Kenneth Mallory (born 1900), where he met Clifford Wilson, who was doing a research stay there as a prominent guest lecturer. Together they then described the capillary changes in the kidney corpuscle in the course of diabetic nephropathy.

From 1958 to 1966, Kimmelstiel was Professor of Pathology in Milwaukee and held the Chair of Pathology at the University of Oklahoma during the last four years of his life .

Fonts

  • About the tracheopathia-chondro-osteoplastica . Hamburg 1925
  • To the knowledge of the galactoside metabolism . Berlin 1931
  • With Clifford Wilson: Intercapillary Lesions in the Glomeruli of the Kidney . In: The American Journal of Pathology . Volume 12, 1936, pp. 83-98.

literature

  • A. Bergstrand, J. Ostman: Paul Kimmelstiel and Clifford Wilson. Tysk och engelsman som möttes vid Harvard - forester att beskriva speciell glomerulusskada. In: Läkartidningen . Volume 81, No. 4, Stockholm 1984, pp. 227-228. (Series: Mannen of Bakom Syndromet. Swedish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/56.1.117
personal data
SURNAME Kimmelstiel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kimmelstiel, Paul Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1970
Place of death Oklahoma City