Vienna School of Dermatology
The Vienna School of Dermatology was a group of dermatologists affiliated to the
skin diseases. Their pupils, Isidor Neumann (1832–1906), Salomon Stricker (1834–1898), Heinrich Auspitz (1834–1885), Moritz Kaposi (1837–1902), all of the same generation; and Paul Gerson Unna (1850–1929) and Salomon Ehrmann
(1854–1926), continued the tradition. Unna later became the father of German dermatopathology.
Von Hebra first organized the dermatological service in the
Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768–1837), Laurent-Théodore Biett (1781–1840), Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (1795–1877) and Pierre François Olive Rayer (1793–1867). The Vienna School adopted the approach of pathology (as influenced by the great Carl von Rokitansky, a professor of von Hebra) and the doctrine of local causative agents. For example, 2,000 of the first 2,500 dermatological patients treated by von Hebra had scabies
.
The members of the Vienna School discovered and described many new diseases and signs, such as:
- Auspitz's sign
- Eczema herpeticum
- Erythema exudativum multiforme
- Hebra's disease
- Hebra's prurigo
- Impetigo herpetiformis
- Kaposi-Irgang syndrome
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Lichen acuminatus
- Lichen planus bullosus
- Lichen ruber moniliformis
- Lupus erythematosus
- Pityriasis rubra
- Tinea cruris
- Unna-Politzer naevus
- Unna's disease
- Unna-Thost syndrome
- Xeroderma pigmentosa
Bibliography
- Finnerud CW. Ferdinand von Hebra and the Vienna school of dermatology. AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952 Aug;66(2):223–32.
- Holubar, K. The History of European Dermatopathology