Theodor Rumpel

Carl August Theodor Rumpel (born March 25, 1862 in Gütersloh , † August 11, 1923 in Hamburg ) was a German internist.

Life

Gravestone Prof. Dr. Theodor Rumpel , Ohlsdorf

Theodor Rumpel received his doctorate in Marburg in 1887 . He then worked at the General Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf , where he was involved in fighting the cholera epidemic of 1892 . In 1893 he became senior physician in the fifth medical department of the AK Eppendorf.

From 1901 Rumpel was a member of the Hamburg citizenship , as a member of the right-wing faction. From 1918 he belonged to the National Liberal Party and was a member of the citizenry until 1919.

In 1907 he was appointed to the building commission that had been charged with building the Barmbek General Hospital . Rumpel was director of the AK Barmbek from 1912 until his death in 1923. The Theodor-Rumpel-Weg and the Theodor-Rumpel-Stieg in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord are named after him.

Carl August Theodor Rumpel was buried in the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, grid square M 14 (south of Cordesallee by Ringstrasse ).

research

In 1909, Rumpel was the first to describe punctiform skin hemorrhages ( petechiae ) in a venous congestion on the arm of a scarlet fever patient. This procedure is also known as the Rumpel-Leede test : a medical examination to check the stability of the capillaries and the functionality of the platelets . The American doctor Carl Stockbridge Leede (1882-1964) described this procedure in 1911 independently of Rumpel.

literature

• 1892–1897: Pathological-anatomical tables based on fresh specimens (together with Alfred Kast)
• 1893: Bacteriological and clinical findings in the post-cholera epidemic in Hamburg

Web links

• Rumpel at whonamedit.com
• The social structure of the chief physicians at the General Hospital Barmbek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership directory of the citizenship 1907 . Print by Th. W. Birkmann, S. 19 .
2. ↑ Celebrity Graves