Hermann Nothnagel

Monument to Hermann Nothnagel at the University of Vienna

Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (September 28, 1841 - July 7, 1905, Vienna) was a German internist born in Alt-Lietzegöricke (Polish: Stare Łysogórki), nearby Bärwalde in der Neumark (Polish: Mieszkowice), Neumark, Brandenburg.

Son of a pharmacist, from 1858 to 1863 Nothnagel studied under Ludwig Traube (1818–1876) and Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) at the University of Berlin. From 1865 to 1868 he was an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910) at the University of Königsberg, where he in 1866 he was habilitated for internal medicine . From 1868 to 1870 he worked as a military physician and lecturer in Berlin and later served in the same roles at Breslau (1870-72).

In 1872 he relocated to Freiburg and in 1874 was appointed full professor at the medical clinic in Jena. From 1882 until his death in 1905, he was a professor at the university clinic in Vienna. One of his better known students was Constantin von Economo (1876-1931). In 1879 he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. He is interred at the Protestant Friedhof Matzleinsdorf (top middle vault, No. 109).

In collaboration with other physicians, Nothnagel published Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, a comprehensive 24-volume handbook of medicine. In 1876 he described the irregular pulse associated with atrial fibrillation. At the time he referred to this discovery as "delirium cordis". The eponymous "Nothnagel's syndrome" is named after him.

Published works

• Handbuch der Arzneimittellehre. 1870.
• Über den epileptischen Anfall. (in Richard von Volkmann's Sammlung klinischer Vorträge), 1872
• Über die Diagnose und Aetiologie der einseitigen Lungenschrumpfung. (in Volkmann's Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, 1874.
• Über Neuritis in diagnostischer und pathologischer Beziehung. (in Volkmann's Sammlung klinischer Vorträge), 1876.
• Anämie und Hyperämie, Blutungen und Erweichungen des Gehirns.
• Epilepsie. (in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie).
• Tophische Diagnostik der Gehirnkrankheiten. Eine klinische Studie. 1879.
• Die Symptomatologie der Darmgeschwüre. (in Volkmann's Sammlung klinischer Vorträge), 1881.
• Beiträge zur Physiologie und Pathologie des Darms. 1884.
• Vorträge über die Diagnose bei den Gehirnkrankheiten. 1887.
• Specielle Pathologie und Therapie. 1894-1905, 24 volumes.
• Die Erkrankungen des Darms und des Peritoneum. (in Ziemmsen's Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie).

See also

• Ernst Remak
• Ottmar Rosenbach

External links

• Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel @ Who Named It

See also: Nothnagel