Ludwig Pick (1868–1944)

Ludwig Pick (31 August 1868 – 3 February 1944) was a German pathologist born in Landsberg an der Warthe.

In 1893, he earned his medical doctorate in Leipzig and subsequently practiced medicine at Leopold Landau's private Frauenklinik, where he remained until 1906. That same year, he became the director of the department of pathological anatomy at the city hospital Friedrichshain-Berlin. Later on, he was imprisoned by the Nazis and died on 3 February 1944 at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp.

Ludwig Pick made several contributions to academic pathology, particularly in the field of genitourinary diseases and the study of melanotic pigmentation. In 1912, he coined the term 'pheochromocytoma' to describe the chromaffin color change in tumor cells associated with adrenal medullary tumors.[1][2]

Associated eponyms

Selected works

  • Über das elastische Gewebe in der normalen und pathologisch veränderten Gebärmutter, 1900 On elastic tissue in the normal and pathologically altered uterus.
  • Die Weltanschauung Des Judentums, 1912 The world view of Judaism.
  • Die Skelettform-ossuäre Form des Morbus Gaucher, 1927 The skeletal form in regards to Gaucher's disease.
  • Der Paratyphus, 1928 The paratyphoid.[4]

References

  • Stephen Ashwal (1990). The founders of child neurology. Norman Publishing. ISBN 0-930405-26-9.
  • Medicine.net Definition of Niemann-Pick disease
  • Ludwig Pick at Who Named It
  • Media related to Ludwig Pick (pathologist) at Wikimedia Commons
  1. Medscape Pheochromocytoma Imaging
  2. Pheochromocytoma Support Page Early History of Pheochromocytoma
  3. Google Books Immunology & Serology in Laboratory Medicine5 by Mary Louise Turgeon
  4. WorldCat Search (published works)
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