Theodor von Jürgensen

Theodor von Jürgensen (11 April 1840 – 8 May 1907)[1] was a German internist who was a native of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein.

Theodor von Jürgensen
BornApril 11, 1840
Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig
DiedMarch 8, 1907(1907-03-08) (aged 66)
Tübingen, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationDoctor

He studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel, Breslau and Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1863. Afterwards he was a lecturer in Kiel, where in 1869 he became an associate professor and head of its medical clinic. In 1873, he became a full professor of general therapy and director of the local policlinic at Tübingen, a position he maintained until his death in 1907.

Jürgensen specialized in research of cardiovascular disease, and is remembered for his work involving treatment of pneumonia and measles.

Selected publications
  • Klinische Studien über die Behandlung des Abdominaltyphus mittels des kalten Wassers (Studies on the treatment of abdominal typhus using cold water); (1866)
  • Die Körperwärme des gesunden Menschen (Body temperature of healthy persons); (1873)
  • Kruppöse Pneumonie Katarrhalpneumonie, in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie", (1874)
  • Antiphlogistische Heilmethoden, Blutentziehungen Transfusion, in Ziemssen's "Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie", (1880)
  • Kruppöse Pneumonie: Beobachtungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik (Croupous pneumonia: Observations from the Tübingen Polyclinic); (1883)
  • Mitteilungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik, (1886)
  • Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie (Textbook of special pathology and therapy); (1893)
  • Acute Exantheme: Allgemeines, Masern, Scharlach, Rötheln, Varicellen (Acute exanthema: measles, scarlet fever, rubella, varicella); (1894–96)
  • Erkrankungen der Kreislaufsorgane, Insufficienz, Schwäche, des Herzens (Diseases of the circulatory organs: Insufficiency, weakness of the heart); (1899)
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References
  1. Heinrich Ihme (1988). Südwestdeutsche Persönlichkeiten: T. Abbt-Kübler. W. Kohlhammer. p. 430. ISBN 978-3-17-010288-0. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  • Zeno.org translated biography @ Pagel:Biographical Dictionary


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