Johann Lukas Schönlein

Johann Lukas Schönlein

Johann Lukas Schönlein
Born (1793-11-30)30 November 1793
Bamberg
Died 23 January 1864(1864-01-23) (aged 70)
Bamberg
Nationality German
Fields Medicine
Doctoral advisor Ignaz Döllinger[1]
Other academic advisors Friedrich Tiedemann
Doctoral students Rudolph Wagner
Known for Education of medicine
Henoch–Schönlein purpura
Trichophyton schoenleinii
Author abbrev. (botany) Schönl.

Johann Lukas Schönlein (30 November 1793 – 23 January 1864) was a German naturalist, 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.[2] He served as physician to Frederick William IV.

Work

He was one of the first German medical professors to lecture in the native tongue instead of Latin. Schönlein described purpura rheumatica (Schönlein's disease) an allergic non-thrombopenic purpura rash that is known today as Henoch-Schönlein purpura.[3] He also discovered the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus (Trichophyton schönleinii).[4]

J. L. Schönlein is also attributed with naming the disease, Tuberculosis, in 1839.[5] Prior to Schönlein's designation, Tuberculosis had been called "consumption".

See also

Notes

  1. Neurotree profile Johann Lukas Schönlein
  2. Johann Lukas Schönlein at Who Named It?
  3. Schönlein-Henoch purpura at Who Named It?
  4. Schönlein's tricophyton at Who Named It?
  5. Zur Pathogenie der Impetigines. Auszug aus einer brieflichen Mitteilung an den Herausgeber. [Müller’s] Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin. 1839, page 82.
  6. "Author Query for 'Schönl.'". International Plant Names Index.

Further reading

Johann Lukas Schönlein

External links

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