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Carl Sternberg (November 20, 1872 – August 15, 1935) was an Austrian pathologist. The Reed–Sternberg cell is named after him and American physician Dorothy Reed Mendenhall.
Carl Sternberg (November 20, 1872 – August 15, 1935) was an Austrian pathologist. The Reed–Sternberg cell is named after him and American physician Dorothy Reed Mendenhall.
Biography
Education
Sternberg studied medicine at the Medical faculty of the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 1896. He then completed training in general internal medicine at Vienna General Hospital and worked as an assistant toRichard Paltauf
Richard Paltauf (9 February 1858 – 21 April 1924) was an Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
Biography
Paltauf was born on 9 February 1858, in Judenburg, Styria.
In 1880 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Graz, a ...
. He was habilitated for pathological anatomy in 1903.
Work in the field
In 1908, Sternberg moved to Brünn where he taught as a professor until 1926. During World War I, he served as a military physician for the Austrian army where he earned a reputation for advocating for the well-being of the soldiers. Sternberg returned to teaching after the war. Sternberg's research focused mostly ontuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in w ...
and leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...
. It was through his studies of tuberculosis that he discovered a novel cell that is today called the Reed–Sternberg cell.
Death
Sternberg died suddenly of amyocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which ...
in 1935. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where also his ashes are buried.
Publications
''Uber eine eigenartige unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukamie verlaufende Tuberculose des lymphatischen Apparates''. Ztschr Heilk 1898;19:21–90.References
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