Ludwig aschoff biography

Biography

• Born 10 January 1866
• 1899 – Medical grad from the University of Bonn
• 1906 – University of Freiburg
• Died 24 June 1942 in Freiburg, Germany

Medical Eponyms

Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses (1842, 1905)

Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses are the result of hyperplasia and herniation of epithelial cells through the fibromuscular layer of the gallbladder wall and are usually referred to as adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder. [aka *Luschka’s sinuses, crypts, glands, or ducts]

Aschoff bodies (1904)

Granuloma in the myocardium specific for rheumatic fever.

In his work on rheumatic myocarditis, Aschoff described the characteristic Aschoff body and presented a histopathological picture of myocarditis that was to exert a great influence on the classification of the disease. [also aka *Aschoff-Geipel bodies after independent description bygd German pathologist Paul Rudolf Geipel (1869-1956) publication Untersuchungen über rheumatische Myokarditis in 1906]

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Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff

Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was one of the most productive of the group of German pathologists who flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is specially remembered for describing the reticuloendothelial system and the bodies that bear his name.He studied in Bonn, Strassburg and Göttingen, and graduated from the University of Bonn in 1889. He was conferred doctor of medicine in 1889; in 1894 he was habilitated for pathological anatomy and became Ist assistant at the Institute of pathology in Göttingen under Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910). He became professor of pathology at Marburg 1903 and from 1906 was professor in Freiburg im Bresgau, where he spent the rest of his career, retiring in 1936. At Freiburg he established an institute of pathology that attracted students from all over the world.

Aschoff made important studies on appendicitis, gallstones, jaundice, scurvy, and thrombosis, and wrote classical histo

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Jürgen Aschoff

German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist

Jürgen Walther Ludwig Aschoff (January 25, 1913 – October 12, 1998^[1]) was a German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist. Together with Erwin Bünning and Colin Pittendrigh, he is considered to be a co-founder of the field of chronobiology.^[1]

Aschoff's work in the field of chronobiology introduced ideas of light interactions in the circadian rhythms of nocturnal and diurnal species as summarized by Aschoff's Rules.

Life

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Aschoff was born in Freiburg Im Breisgau, the fifth child of pathologistLudwig Aschoff (known for discovering the Aschoff-Tawara or atrioventricular node) and his wife Clara. He grew up in the liberal but morally strict world of Prussian academia.^[1] After the Abitur at a humanistic high school, he – according to his own statement "lacking a specific interest" – studied medicine at the University of Bonn, where he joined the Burschenschaf