Nationality German Role Physician | Author abbrev. (botany) Doctoral advisor Ignaz Dollinger Name Johann Schonlein Doctoral students Rudolf Wagner | |
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Born 30 November 1793Bamberg ( 1793-11-30 ) Known for Education of medicineHenoch–Schonlein purpuraTrichophyton schoenleinii Parents Margarete Schonlein, Thomas Schonlein Similar People Hermann Senator, Johannes Peter Muller, Pierre Charles Alexandr | ||
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. He also discovered the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus (Trichophyton schönleinii).
J. L. Schönlein is also attributed with naming the disease, Tuberculosis, in 1839. Prior to Schönlein's designation, Tuberculosis had been called "consumption".