Robert Borrmann

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Karl August Robert Borrmann (born February 27, 1870 in Braunschweig , † June 8, 1943 in Ebersdorf in Thuringia ) was a German pathologist . He developed the four-stage Borrmann classification of gastric cancer , which is still in use today .

Life

Robert Borrmann, who comes from a family of railway workers, was born in Braunschweig in 1870. He attended grammar school there and then studied medicine in Leipzig , Freiburg , Jena and Göttingen . In 1895 he passed the state examination at the University of Göttingen and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. After military service he went to the University of Zurich in 1896 , where he began his pathological training as an assistant to Hugo Ribbert . In 1898 he moved to Emil Ponfick at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute at the University of Breslau . In 1900 he went to the Philipps University of Marburg as the first assistant to his teacher Hugo Ribbert , where he completed his habilitation in 1901 with a paper on gastric cancer . Together with Ribbert, he moved to Göttingen in 1903.

In 1905 Borrmann was appointed to the prosecution at the Ducal Hospital on Celler Strasse in Braunschweig. He was appointed associate professor in 1907. In 1909 he accepted an appointment to Bremen , where from 1911 he headed the construction of a lavishly planned pathological institute. He established the subject of pathological anatomy in Bremen, which was previously not represented there. Borrmann retired in 1935 and was still acting head of the institute until the pathologist Willy Giese (1902–1973) succeeded him in 1937. Borrmann died of pneumonia in 1943 at the age of 73.

In addition to the establishment of the Bremen institute, Borrmann's services are particularly in the areas of research and teaching. He researched, among other things, tumors , portal vein thrombosis , carnification of the lungs and uterine sarcomas . He built up an extensive teaching collection in Bremen, which was destroyed in a bombing raid during World War II in 1941 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Growth and Routes of Spread of Gastric Carcinoma from the Anatomical and Clinical Viewpoint , 1901.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Dhom: History of histopathology , Volume II, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2001, pp 408th
personal data
SURNAME Borrmann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borrmann, Karl August Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1943
Place of death Ebersdorf , Thuringia