Johann Lukas Schönlein

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Johann Lukas Schönlein
Rudolph Wagner
Author abbrev. (botany)Schönl.

Johann Lukas Schönlein (30 November 1793 – 23 January 1864) was a German

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

thrombopenic purpura rash that became known as Henoch–Schönlein purpura, though now known as IgA vasculitis.[3][4]
He also discovered the parasitic cause of

J. L. Schönlein first published the name "tuberculosis" (German: Tuberkulose) in 1832.[6][7] Prior to Schönlein's designation, tuberculosis had been called "consumption".

Taxon named in his honor

  • The
    Ryukyus.[9]

See also

  • German inventors and discoverers

Notes

  1. ^ Neurotree profile Johann Lukas Schönlein
  2. Who Named It?
  3. PMID 23045170
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  4. Who Named It?
  5. Who Named It?
  6. ^ Schönlein, J.L. (1832). Allgemeine und specielle Pathologie und Therapie [General and Special Pathology and Therapy] (in German). Vol. 3. Würzburg, (Germany): C. Etlinger. p. 103.
  7. S2CID 53027676
    . See especially Appendix, p. iii.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Schönl.
  9. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (a-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 February 2023.

Further reading

Johann Lukas Schönlein

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