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Ludwig Aschoff
Original Names
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
Date, Country, and City of Birth
January 10, 1866, Prussia (from 1871 German Empire), Berlin
Date, Country, and City of Death
June 24, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau
History of Life
Aschoff studied medicine at the universities of Bonn (1885–1887), Strasbourg (then Straßburg, a part of the German Empire) (1887–1889), and Würzburg (1889). In Straßburg he attended, amongst others, lectures by the important clinician Adolf Kußmaul and the pathologist Friedrich von Recklinghausen (Von Recklinghausen, Friedrich D. (1833–1910). Back in Bonn, he earned his doctoral degree under the pathologist Hugo Ribbert with a thesis on Staphylococcus (1889) and qualified in medicine (1890). From 1890 to 1891 he worked with Robert Koch (Koch, Robert (1843–1910)) in Berlin and the histologists Albert von Kölliker and Philipp Stöhrsen in Würzburg. In 1891 he became for 2½ years an assistant of von Recklinghausen in Straßburg. After 8 months...
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References and Further Reading
Aschoff, L. (1922). Über die natürlichen Heilungsvorgänge bei der Lungenphthise. Verhandlungen des 33. Deutschen Kongresses für Innere Medizin 1921. Sonderdruck, 1–39.
Aschoff, L. (1924). Das reticulo-endotheliale System. Erg Inn Med Kinderheilk, 26, 1–118.
Aschoff, L. (1930). Der appendicitische Anfall, seine Ätiologie und Pathogenese. Berlin: Springer.
Aschoff, L., & Kiyono, K. (1913). Zur Frage der großen Mononucleären. Folia Haem, 15, 385–390.
Aschoff, L., & Tawara, S. (1906). Die heutige Lehre von den pathologisch-anatomischen Grundlagen der Herzschwäche. Jena: Fischer.
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Sandeck, H.P. (2017). Aschoff, Ludwig (1866–1942). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_491
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