Johann Lukas Schönlein Explained

Johann Lukas Schönlein
Birth Date:30 November 1793
Birth Place:Bamberg, Holy Roman Empire
Death Place:Bamberg, German Confederation
Nationality:German
Field:Medicine
Doctoral Advisor:Ignaz Döllinger[1]
Academic Advisors:Friedrich Tiedemann
Doctoral Students:Rudolph Wagner
Known For:Education of medicine
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
Trichophyton schoenleinii
Author Abbrev Bot:Schönl.

Johann Lukas Schönlein (30 November 1793 – 23 January 1864) was a German naturalist, and professor of medicine, born in 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.He served as physician to Frederick William IV.

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He was one of the first German medical professors to lecture in the native tongue instead of Latin. Schönlein described purpura rheumatica (Schönlein's disease) an allergic non-thrombopenic purpura rash that became known as Henoch–Schönlein purpura, though now known as IgA vasculitis.[2] He also discovered the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus (Trichophyton schönleinii).

J. L. Schönlein first published the name "tuberculosis" (German: Tuberkulose) in 1832.[3] [4] Prior to Schönlein's designation, tuberculosis had been called "consumption".

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  1. Neurotree profile Johann Lukas Schönlein
  2. J. C. Jennette . R. J. Falk . P. A. Bacon . etal . January 2013 . 2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides . . 65 . 1 . 1–11 . 10.1002/art.37715 . 23045170. free .
  3. Book: Schönlein . J.L. . Allgemeine und specielle Pathologie und Therapie . General and Special Pathology and Therapy . 1832 . C. Etlinger . Würzburg, (Germany) . 3 . 103 . German.
  4. The word "tuberculosis" first appeared in Schönlein's clinical notes in 1829. See: Jay . S. J. . Kırbıyık . U. . Woods . J. R. . Steele . G. A. . Hoyt . G. R. . Schwengber . R. B. . Gupta . P. . Modern theory of tuberculosis: culturomic analysis of its historical origin in Europe and North America . International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease . 2018 . 22 . 11 . 1249–1257. 10.5588/ijtld.18.0239 . 30355403 . 53027676 . See especially Appendix, p. iii.
  5. Web site: Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (a-h) . 27 February 2023 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018.