Isidor Neumann, Edler von Heilwart (2 March 1832, Mißlitz,

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– 31 August 1906) was a

dermatologist Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin.''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.'' Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 537. . It is a speciality with both medical and surgical aspects. A dermatologist is a specialist medi ...

from the

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. He was a student at the so-called Vienna School of Dermatology under

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (7 September 1816 – 5 August 1880) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist known as the founder of the New Vienna School of Dermatology, an important group of physicians who established ...

(1816–1880), earning his doctorate in 1858. In 1863 he received his habilitation, and in 1873 became an associate professor. In 1881 he was appointed professor of dermatology and successor to Carl Ludwig Sigmund (1810–1883) as director of the clinic for

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. In an 1886 publication of ''Vierteljahrsschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis'', he described a type of

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vulgaris, which later became known as Pemphigus vegetans of Neumann. He was also the first to publish a detailed study (''Über die senilen Veränderungen der Haut des Menschen'') of prematurely aged skin caused by over-exposure to weather conditions. However it wasn't until several years later that

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(1850-1929) gave it a name, calling it ''seemannshaut'' or "sailors' skin". During the Austrian government's occupation of

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, Neumann was sent to the country to manage the public health problem of syphilis and leprosy.

Written works

* ''Lehrbuch der Hautkrankheiten'', 1869. * ''Ueber eine noch wenig bekannte Hautkrankheit'' (Dermatitis circumscripta herpetiformis). in Vierteljahrsschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis, Vienna, 1875, 2: 41–52. (First description of Mibelli's disease II). * ''Ueber Pemphigus vegetans (frambosioides)''. in Vierteljahrsschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis, Vienna, 1886, 13: 157–178. * ''Syphilis'' in

Hermann Nothnagel Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (; 28 September 1841 – 7 July 1905) was a German internist, born in Alt-Lietzegöricke, near Bärwalde in der Neumark, Neumark, Brandenburg. Career The son of a pharmacist, from 1858 to 1863 Nothnagel studi ...

's Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Volume VIIIV, Vienna, 1896

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Journal of cutaneous diseases by the American Dermatological Association (1906)
(biography) 1832 births 1906 deaths People from Miroslav (Znojmo District) People from the Margraviate of Moravia Edlers of Austria Dermatologists from Austria-Hungary Academic staff of the University of Vienna {{austria-med-bio-stub