Stephen Rothman (medical doctor)
Stephen Rothman (actually István Rothman , also Stephan Rothman ; born September 10, 1894 in Budapest ; † August 31, 1963 ) was a Hungarian - American dermatologist .
Live and act
Rothman was the son of a stomatologist. After graduating from high school, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army and completed a degree in medicine at the University of Budapest , which he completed in 1917. After that he served as a military doctor . In 1918 he received at the University of Budapest in the Department of Physiology a teaching position . In the outpatient clinic of Lajos Török (1863-1945), a student of Paul Gerson Unna , he acquired knowledge of clinical dermatology.
From 1920 he completed a dermatological specialist training with Albert Jesionek at the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Gießen , qualified as a professor in 1923 and became an associate professor for clinical dermatology and venereology in 1927 . During this time he also visited other university skin clinics in Germany as well as in Zurich , Vienna , Paris and London . In 1928 he went back to Budapest, became director of the dermatological clinic and opened a private practice . In 1935 he was General Secretary of the “9. International Congress of Dermatology “in Budapest.
In 1938 he emigrated to Chicago . There he was appointed director of the dermatological department at the Medical School of the University of Chicago in 1942 as the successor to Samuel William Becker . In 1941 he was appointed Assistant Professor, 1943 Associate Professor and 1945 full professor at the University of Chicago.
The focus of his research was in the field of descriptive clinical dermatology and the biochemistry of the skin. In 1942, he wrote the first description of paraneoplastic erythema necroticans migrans .
Stephen Rothman was married and had two sons.
The Society for Investigative Dermatology awards the Stephen Rothman Award and the Stephen Rothman Medal.
Rothmann-Makai Syndrome
Stephen Rothman is in some sources the first description of the "Rothmann-Makai syndrome", a form of panniculitis , ascribed, which is also referred to as "Rothman-Makai syndrome". This first description comes from Max Rothmann in 1894, the year Stephen Rothman was born.
Fonts
- Studies on the physiology of the effects of light. Habilitation thesis. University of Giessen 1923. Springer, Berlin 1923, DNB 365057029 .
- with Fritz Schaaf: Chemistry of the Skin. Springer, Berlin 1929, OCLC 47657430 .
- with Samuel William Becker, David Kahn: Cutaneous manifestations of internal malignant tumors. In: Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology . 45, 1942, pp. 1069-1080, doi: 10.1001 / archderm.1942.01500120037004 .
- The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Skin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1954, OCLC 14649803
- (Ed.): The human Integument, normal and abnormal. Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 28./29. December 1957. Washington 1959, OCLC 250917907 ( Publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 54).
- with Arthur L. Shapiro: Undecylenic Acid in the Treatment of Dermatomycosis. In: Archives of Dermatology . 119, 1983, pp. 345-350, doi: 10.1001 / archderm.1983.01650280073020 .
literature
- Allan L. Lorincz: Dr. Stephen Rothman: Foreword. In: Journal of Investigative Dermatology . Volume 31, 1958, pp. 1-3.
- Allan L. Lorincz: Stephen Rothman, MD. 1894-1963. In: Archives of Dermatology. Volume 89, No. 2, 1964, pp. 167-169, doi: 10.1001 / archderm.1964.01590260005001 .
- Frank G. Rothman, Allan L. Lorincz: Stephen Rothman, Pioneer of Investigative Dermatology. In: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Volume 39, No. 1, 1995, pp. 93-109 ( entry in Project MUSE , with publications by Stephen Rothman).
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephen Rothman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Altmeyer : Stephan Rothman on enzyklopaedie-dermatologie.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commemorative Medals with picture of the medal In: The Journal of Cutaneous Diseases. Vol. XXV, No. 10, 1907. Reprint: In: Arch. Dermatol. Vol. 143, No. 10, 2007, p. 1247
- ↑ M. Rothmann: On inflammation and atrophy of the subcutaneous adipose tissue. In: Virchows Arch. Pathol. Anat. 136, 1894, pp. 136-159. See also WA Newman Dorland: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, p. 1656 ( Google books ) and Rheumatologie C. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-88228-9 , p. 288 ( Google books ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothman, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rothman, István (real name); Rothman, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American dermatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1963 |