Robert Langerhans

Robert Langerhans (born May 4, 1859 in Berlin , † November 22, 1904 in Berlin) was a German pathologist.

Life

As the son of Paul Langerhans senior and half-brother of Paul Langerhans , Robert Langerhans was the godchild of Rudolf Virchow . He first studied architecture at the Berlin Bauakademie , then medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1880 he was a member of the Isaria Corps . He was promoted to Dr. med. Doctorate and licensed as a doctor in 1885 . Langerhans was Virchow's assistant at the Charité from 1885 to 1894 . He completed his habilitation in pathological anatomy in 1890 , became a prosector at the Moabit Hospital in 1894 and was awarded the title of professor in 1895 . In 1903 Ferdinand Sauerbruch worked for a few months at the pathological-anatomical institute in Berlin-Moabit . Robert Langerhans died at the age of 45.

Works

• Pathological anatomy plan , translated into English, Italian and Russian
• Internal entrapment by turning the axis of the pylorus half of an hourglass stomach
• About pancreatic necrosis (1889)
• About atlas ankylosis (1890)
• On multiple adipose tissue necrosis (1890)
• About regressive changes in the trichinae (1892)
• Changes in the lungs after carbolic acid poisoning (1892)
• Contributions to the physiology of the mammary gland (1894)
• About the birth of a coffin (1899)

literature

• C. Benda: Robert Langerhans . Centralblatt Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie 16 (1905), pp. 97-99.
• Langhans, Robert In: J. Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1901, p. 959.
• G. Dhom: History of Histopathology. Springer, Berlin 2001. ISBN 354067490X . ( Notes on Langerhans )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109/639.
2. ↑ Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 47–49.