Ludwig Traube (physician)
Ludwig Traube (12 January 1818 in
Biography
Ludwig Traube was a son of a Jewish wine merchant. In 1835, at age 17, he left the gymnasium in Ratibor. He studied medicine in
Ludwig Traube was the elder brother of Moritz Traube, who was an extraordinary private scholar and a pioneer of physiological chemistry. The Berlin physician Moritz Litten (1845–1907) was his son-in-law. Ludwig Traube married Cora Marckwald, and they had 3 daughters and 2 sons. It was an impressing happening, when a son died from diphtheria the age of 5 years. Another son, Ludwig Traube (1861–1907), was a palaeographer. His nephews Wilhelm Traube (chemist, 1866–1942) and Albert Fraenkel (physician, 1848–1916) belong also to the scholars-family Traube-Litten-Fraenkel. One of his daughters was Margarete Traube, a chemist and activist, married firstly to the physiologist and histologist Franz Christian Boll and secondly to the Italian engineer and politician Guglielmo Mengarini. Another daughter was the mother of Anna Fraentzel Celli, a nurse and philanthropist.
Assessments
Ludwig Traube earned great fame and honours by his establishing experimental pathophysiological research in Germany (e.g. he did animal experiments in the 1840s in his Berlin flat in the Oranienburger Str.) He improved the physical-medical methods like auscultation and percussion and was a taxonomist of the medical documentation. (e.g. inaugural of the temperature-pulse-frequency of respiration-curve into clinical praxis). He investigated the pathophysiology of respiration and the regulation of the body temperature, and gave a scientific basis to digitalis therapy. The narrow coherencies between heart and kidney diseases have been well demonstrated. He worked together with Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), they substantiated the „Beiträge zur experimentellen Pathologie“.
Acknowledgments
The University of Leiden awarded Ludwig Traube the honorary doctorate in 1875. In the areal of Charité was built in 1878 a memorial monument. A street of Ratibor was named "Dr. Traubestraße“ in 1927. Some eponymous are associated to Ludwig Traube and describe clinical phenomena of auscultation, palpation and percussion: Traube's bruit, Traube's corpuscles, Traube's double tone, Traube's dyspnea, Traube's plugs, Traube's pulse, Traube's space and Traube-Hering-Mayer waves.
Bibliography
- Die Ursachen und die Beschaffenheit derjenigen Veränderungen, welche das Lungenparenchym nach Durchschneidung der Nn. vagi erleidet. Berlin, 1845.
- Beitrag zur Lehre von den Erstickungserscheinungen am Respirationsapparat. Beiträge zur experimentellen Pathologie, 1846 and 1847.
- Ueber periodische Thätigkeits-Aeusserungen des vasomotorischen und Hemmungs-Nervencentrum. Centralblatt für die Medicinischen Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1865, 3: 881–885.
- Die Symptome der Krankheiten des Respirations und Circulations-Apparats. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin: Hirschwald, 1867.
- Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physiologie. Berlin, Hirschwald, 1871–1878.
- Ein Fall von Pulsus bigeminus nebst Bemerkungen über die Leberschwellungen bei Klappenfehlern und über acute Leberatrophie. Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, 1872, 9: 185–188, 221–224.
Sources and literature
- Nachlass TRAUBE-LITTEN. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Handschriftenabt.
- Traube, Ludwig.: Briefe an Virchow (Literaturarchiv der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, NL-Virchow 2188, 9 Bl.
- Berndt, H.: Ludwig Traubes Beitrag zur Nephrologie. Zeitschr. Urol. Nephrol. 79 (1986) 171–174
- Jüdisches Lexikon. Berlin (1930) 1034–1035
- Winninger, S.: Große Jüdische Nationalbiografie. Bd. 6, Bukarest (1936) 125–126
- Henrik Franke: Moritz Traube (1826–1894) Vom Weinkaufmann zum Akademiemitglied, "Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Chemie", Band 9, Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, ISBN 978-3-929134-21-6
External links
- Ludwig Traube in the German National Library catalogue
- Ludwig Traube, Who Named it
- "Ludwig Traube". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. 1906. p. 235.
- Biografie Moritz Traube von H. Franke
- Picture, biography, and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science