Johann Lukas Schönlein was a German

Germany

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 naturalist

Naturalist

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, and professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was called to Berlin in 1839, where he taught therapeutics and pathology

Pathology

Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....

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He served as physician to Frederick William IV.

He was one of the first German medical professors to lecture in the native tongue instead of Latin

Latin

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. Schönlein described purpura rheumatica (Schönlein's disease) an allergic non-thrombopenic purpura

Purpura

Purpura is the appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch on applying pressure. They are caused by bleeding underneath the skin...

 rash that is known today as Henoch-Schönlein purpura

Henoch-Schönlein purpura

Henoch–Schönlein purpura is a disease of the skin and other organs that most commonly affects children. In the skin, the disease causes palpable purpura ; often with joint and abdominal pain...

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He also discovered the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus

Favus

Favus is a disease usually affecting the scalp, but occurring occasionally on any part of the skin, and even at times on mucous membranes.-Presentation:...

 (Achorion Schönleinii).

Literature

• Joh. Lucas Schoenlein von der Hirnmetamorphose, Inauguralabhandlung, Würzburg, Gedruckt bey F. E. Nitribitt, Universitätsbuchdrucker, 1816
• Theses ex universa Medicina. Quas Gratiosi in Inclyta Universitate Herbipolitana Medicorum Ordinis consensu pro Gradu Doctoris in Medicina, Chirurgia et Arte Obstetricia Rite Obtinendo Pubice, Defendet Die XXIV. Februarii MDCCCXVI. Horis Matutinis Consuetis Joannes Lucas Schoenlein, Bambergensis, Wirceburgi 1816 (Thesenverteidigung Schönleins im Jahre 1816)
• Allgemeine und spezielle Pathologie und Therapie, Nach J. L. Schönlein's Vorlesungen, Niedergeschrieben und herausgegeben von einem seiner Zuhörer, In vier Bänden, Würzburg 1832 (unrechtmäßiger Vordruck), mit späterer Auflage Herisau 1834
• Dr. J. L. Schönlein's, Professors in Berlin, Krankheitsfamilie der Typhen., Nach dessen neuesten Vorlesungen niedergeschrieben und herausgegeben von einem seiner Zuhörer, Zürich 1840
• Schoenlein's klinische Vorträge in dem Charité-Krankenhause zu Berlin. Redigirt und herausgegeben von Dr. L. Güterbock, Berlin 1842 (Zweite unveränderte Auflage)
• Günter Klemmt: Johann Lukas Schönleins unveröffentlichtes Vorlesungsmanuskript über den "Keichhusten". Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 1986 (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften 53), ISBN 978-3-7868-4053-4
• K.-P. Kelber, M. Okrusch: (2006): Die geologische Erforschung und Kartierung des Würzburger Stadtgebietes von den Anfängen bis 1925 in Mainfränkische Hefte Würzburg Nr. 105, Seite 71–115
• R. Virchow: Gedächtnisrede auf Joh. Lucas Schönlein, gehalten am 23. Januar 1865, dem ersten Jahrestage seines Todes in der Aula der Berliner Universität.- Berlin 1865
• "... und ewig erklingen wird sein Ruhm ..." - Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864), Katalog einer Ausstellung der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Bamberg 1993
• Arnholdt, Robert, Johann Lukas Schönlein als Tuberkulosearzt, In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 1978, S. 702-707
• Fuhrmann, H. R.: Dr. Johann Lukas Schönlein, der Begründer einer neuen Zeit un der Medizin, In: Berichte der Phys.-med. Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, 1938, S. 130-179
• Herd, Rudolf: Dr. Johann Lukas Schönleins (1793-1864) fränkische Vorfahren und Verwandte, In: Bericht des Historischen Vereins Bamberg 100 (1964), S. 551-557
• Katalog der Sammlung Schoenlein. Catalog of the Schonleiniana Collection Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg, Boston/Mass. 1972
• Virchow, Gedächtnisrede auf Schönlein, (1865)

External links

• Digital collection about Johann Lukas Schönlein at the Bamberg State Library
  Bamberg State Library
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