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Otto Lubarsch

Born  1860
Died  1933

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German pathologist, born January 4, 1860, Berlin; died 1933.

Biography of Otto Lubarsch

Otto Lubarsch studied philosophy and natural sciences in Leipzig and Heidelberg, then studied medicine in Jena, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Strassburg, obtaining his doctorate in 1883. He was approbiert in 1885, and for several months that year was assistant at the physiological institute in Bern under Hugo Kronecker (1839-1914), then assistant at the pathological institutes in Giessen under Eugen Bostroem (1850-1928), in Breslau under Emil Ponfick (1844-1913), and in Zurich under Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834-1913). He also worked at the zoological station in Naples.

Lubarsch was habilitated for pathological anatomy in 1890 in Zurich. From 1891 to 1896 he was first assistant at the pathological institute in Rostock under Albert Thierfelder (1842-1908), becoming professor extraordinary of general pathology and pathological anatomy in that city in 1894. In 1899 he was invited to become professor at the pathological-anatomical department of the hygienical institute in Posen. In 1905 he came to Zwickau as head of the pathological and bacteriological institute in the Krankenstift, and in 1907 assumed the chair at the academy of the practice of medicine in Düsseldorf, in 1913 at the University of Kiel, and in 1917 in Berlin, where he retired in 1929.

Lubarsch was a collaborator of the journal Ergebnisse der allgemeinen Pathologie und pathologischen Anatomie der Menschen und der Tiere, which he established with Robert von Ostertag (1864-1940) in 1896.

Lubarsch was publisher of Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin.

Bibliography

  • Untersuchungen über die Ursachen der angeborenen und erworbenen Immunität.
    Zeitschrift für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1891, 18: 421-496.
    Berlin, 1896.
  • Zur Lehre von der Parenchymzellenembolie.
    Fortschritte der Medizin, 1893.
  • Beitr. zur Kenntniss der von Versprengten Nebennierenkeimen abstammenden Nierengeschwülste.
    [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, CLV, 1894.
  • Achylia gastrica.
    With Friedrich Martius (1850-1923). Vienna, 1897.
  • Zur Kenntniss der Strahlenpilze.
    Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, Berlin, 1899.
  • Zur Lehre von den Geschwülsten und Infectionskrankheiten.
    Wiesbaden, 1899.
  • Pathologische Anatomie und Krebsforschung.
    Wiesbaden, 1902.
  • Die allgemeine Pathologie. Wiesbaden, 1905.
  • Allgemeine Biologie und Pathologie.
    Jahreskurse für ärztliche Fortbildung, Heft 1, January 1910: 9-62.
  • Zur Frage der Hochschulreform. Wiesbaden, 1919.
  • Allgemeine und spezielle pathologische Histologie der Strahlenwirkung.
    In: Handbuch des gesamten Strahlenheilkunde. Volume 1. Munich, 1928. With Friedrich Henke (1868-1943), Otto Lubarsch published:
  • Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Antomie und Histologie.
    12 volumes. Berlin, J. Springer, 1924-1952.
    To which he contributed:
  • Die hypertrophischen hyperplastischen und regenerativen Vorgänge.
  • Über die pathologischen Ablagerungen, Speicherungen und Ausscheidungen in den Nieren.
  • Die Nierengewächse.
    With Theodor Fahr (1877-1940). Volume 6, 1. 1925.
  • Pathologische Anatomie der Milz. Volume 1, 2. 1927.
  • Atrophie und sogenannte Degenerationen des Magens und Darmes. With Moritz Borchardt (1868-). Volume 4, 3. 1929.
  • Staubeinatmungskrankheiten der Lunge. With M. Schmidtmann. Volume 3, 2. 1930.
  • Die krankhaften Ablagerungen und Speicherungen [der Lunge]. With K. Plenge. Volume 3, 3. 1931.
  • Ein bewegtes Leben. Berlin, 1931. Autobiography.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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