Siegmund Lustgarten

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Siegmund Lustgarten (also Sigmund Lustgarten , born December 19, 1857 in Vienna , † January 22, 1911 in New York City ) was an Austrian dermatologist .

Life

After graduating from high school , Lustgarten began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1875 . Even as a student, he worked there at the Chemical Institute under Ernst Ludwig and published his first scientific papers. In 1891 Lustgarten completed his studies with a doctorate . Several study visits followed with the luminaries in his field: Albert Neisser ( Breslau ), Rudolf Bergh ( Copenhagen ), Georg Lewin ( Berlin ), Carl Weigert ( Würzburg ) and Ernest Besnier ( Paris ).

The results of this study trip and his own research made it possible for Lustgarten to do his habilitation with Moritz Kaposi in Vienna in 1885 . Immediately afterwards he became first assistant at Kaposi's Clinic for Dermatology and Syphilidology in Vienna. In the same year, Lustgarten was also appointed as a lecturer for skin diseases at the University of Vienna. In 1888, Lustgarten turned down offers that would have brought him a chair at the universities of Constantinople or Basel . A year later he went to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York . At the same time he was also working on the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York .

In 1884 Lustgarten presented the Lustgarten Siphillisbacillus to the professional world, which he mistakenly believed to be the causative agent of this disease. However, this mistake could not damage his reputation as an excellent doctor and dermatologist.

When Sigmund Freud developed a new method of coloring nerve tissue, he was able to fall back on important research results from Lustgarten. Even Karl Koller found a competent colleagues in Lustgarten.

Siegmund Lustgarten died on January 22, 1911 in New York at the age of 54.

Works

  • Siphillis Bacilli. Braumüller, Vienna 1885.

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