Recklinghausen

RECKLINGHAUSEN Friedrich (Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, 1833-1910), a leading pathologist and anatomist of his time. Graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Berlin in 1855. Until 1864 he worked as an assistant at the Berlin Pathological Institute under the direction of Virchow. In 1866 he became professor of pathology at Königsberg, and in 1870 at Würzburg. In 1872 he was elected professor of pathology at the University of Strasbourg, where a new pathological institute was built for him. Among his scientific works, the most well-known are his research: on multiple neurofibromatosis (1882) and on fibrous osteitis (1891); both of these diseases to this day are designated as "Recklinghausen's diseases." In his time, Recklinghausen's works on lymphatic vessels and retrograde embolism were of great importance, as were a number of his studies on the origin of pus corpuscles and pyemia, as well as his work on adenomyomas of the uterus and fallopian tubes. Shortly before his death, Recklinghausen published a two-volume study on rickets and osteomalacia with an atlas (Jena, 1910), which to this day is considered a classic. From Recklinghausen's school came many outstanding pathologists (Aschoff, J. B. Schmidt, Lyubimov, and others). From 1883 to 1885, Recklinghausen served as rector of the University of Strasbourg. Recklinghausen's disease - see Neurofibromatosis, Fibrous osteitis.