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Karl Theodor Fahr
German pathologist, born October 3, 1877, Pirmasens, Rheinpfalz; died 1945.
Associated eponyms:
Aschoff-Geipel bodies
Granuloma in the myocardium specific for rheumatic fever.
Chavany-Brunhes syndrome
A disturbance marked by persistent headache and a variable degree of psychoneurotic manifestations, associated with calcification of the falx cerebri.
Fahr's disease
A rare idiopathic disease which manifests in middle age characterized by punctate areas of non-arteriosclerotic calcination in parts of the gray and dentate nuclei, particularly of smaller brain vessels.
Volhard's test
A test for kidney function.
Biography:
Theodor Fahr studied medicine in Giessen, Munich, Berlin, and Kiel, receving his doctorate at the University of Giessen in 1903. His further studies were wih Eugen Bostroem (1850-1926) in Giessen, Morris Simmonds (1855-1925) and Theodor Deneke (1860-) in Hamburg, and with Ilya Ilich Metchnikoff (1845-1916) in Paris. In 1919 he became planmässiger ausserordentlicher professor and 1924 full professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy in Hamburg. His work concerns studies of the heart, vessels, and, in particular, the kidneys.
Bibliography:
- Kreislaufstörungen in der Niere.
- Pathologische Anatomie des Morbus Brightii.
- Die Nierengewächse. With Otto Lubarsch (1860-1933).
In Friedrich Henke (1868-1943) and Otto Lubarsch (publishers): Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Antomie und Histologie. Volume 6, 1. Berlin, 1925.
- Zusammenhangstrennung und durch Gewaltanwendung bedingte krankhafte Veränderungen des Nierenbeckens und des Harnleiters.
In Friedrich Henke (1868-1943) and Otto Lubarsch (publishers): Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Antomie und Histologie. Volume 6, 1. Berlin, 1925.
- Die Brightsche Nierenkrankheit.
With Franz Volhard. Berlin, J. Springer, 1940.
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