Theodor Rumpf

Theodor Rumpf

Heinrich Theodor Maria Rumpf (born December 23, 1851 in Volkmarsen ; † July 10, 1934 there ) was a German internist, infectiologist, neurologist and university lecturer.

Life

Rumpf studied at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Leipzig and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . As a consemester from Hermann Kümmell he became active in Corps Hasso-Nassovia in 1873 . In 1876 he was in Freiburg one of the first Corp boys of Hasso Borussia whose honorary member he later became. In 1877 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1876 to 1878 he first turned to neurology with Wilhelm Erb in Heidelberg . From 1879 to 1882 he was a doctor in Düsseldorf. In 1882 he completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which appointed him as associate professor in 1887 . In 1888 he moved to the home university of Marburg, whose medical outpatient clinic he headed as director and associate professor .

The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg appointed him in 1892 as director of the new General Hospital Eppendorf . Thus he was also chief physician of a (IV.) Medical Department and the Epidemic Department. Here he dealt more with infectious diseases and clinical chemistry . Less than three months in office and “not yet familiar with the difficult conditions in Hamburg”, as head of the two general hospitals he had to take on the main responsibility for combating the great cholera epidemic that broke out in Hamburg in August 1892. Although this made him Germany's greatest cholera expert, "a chain of unfortunate circumstances did not allow him to emerge unscathed from this test."

After two years of clinical trials, he introduced Emil von Behring's healing serum in 1894 to treat the dreaded diphtheria . With Pyozyaneus preparations he had the fever-fighting successes. "When his reputation suffered further losses during a trial of strength with a self-confident superior , he retired to a less exposed post in a smaller clinic in Bonn in 1901." In 1904/05, Rumpf settled on Bonn's banks of the Rhine according to plans by the Berlin architecture firm Kayser & von Großheim build a villa (Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 8; destroyed in the war).

In 1907 he became a full honorary professor and professor of social medicine. 1912 to go Appointed medical councilor and retired in 1922, he retired in his native Volkmarsen near Kassel.

Works

• Ataxia after diphtheritis . German Archive for Clinical Medicine 1877
• About some spinal cord symptoms in chronic brain disease . German Archive for Clinical Medicine 1878
• On the physiology and pathology of tactile sensation (A. f. Ps. XV)
• The syphilitic diseases of the nervous system . Wiesbaden 1887
• with Eugen Fraenkel : Clinical and pathological-anatomical contributions to the cholera kidney . German Archive for Clinical Medicine
• Hospital and nursing . Berlin 1896
• The cholera indica and nostra . Jena 1898
• Diphtheria . In: Ebstein-Schwalbe's Handbook of Practical Medicine, 1899

Web links

Commons : Theodor Rumpf  - Collection of Pictures

• U. Weisser, 1996 (PDF; 78 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 99/360; 31/5
2. ↑ Dissertation: On the teaching of binocular accommodation .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ursula Weisser: Medical science and practice in the new general hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg in the last decade of the 19th century . Lecture at the symposium “100 Years of Neurological University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf”, July 3, 1996
4. ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 280/281. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
5. ^ Archives Corps Hasso-Nassovia

Remarks

1. ↑ Awarded by the Medical Faculty Heidelberg 1876
2. ↑ Rumpf was one of only two permanent doctors. The other was a surgeon.