Theodor Brugsch

Theodor Brugsch

Theodor Brugsch (October 11, 1878 – July 11, 1963) was a German internist born in Graz.

He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. In 1917-19 he served with distinction as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania.

From 1927 to 1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, where he remained for the remainder of his career. His father, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894) was a well-known Egyptologist.

With Friedrich Kraus he published a 19-volume medical textbook titled Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie (1919-1929), and with Friedrich H. Lewy he published Die Biologie der Person (1926-1930). He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on the 25-pfennig postage stamp by the East German government.

Associated eponym

• Brugsch's syndrome: a multi-symptom disorder that is similar to Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome without acromegaly.

Selected written works

• Lehrbuch klinischer Untersuchungsmethoden, (with Alfred Schittenhelm) Berlin and Vienna, 1908; 6th edition, (1923).
• Der Nukleinstoffwechsel und seine Störungen, Jena, (1910).
• Diätetik innerer Erkrankungen Berlin, 1911; 2nd edition, 1919 as: Lehrbuch der Diätetik des Gesunden und Kranken.
• Technik der speziellen klinischen Untersuchungsmethoden, (With Alfred Schittenhelm) Berlin and Vienna, 1914; 2nd edition 1923-1929 as: Klinische Laboratoriumstechnik.
• Allgemeine Prognostik, Berlin and Vienna, 1918; 2nd edition, (1922).
• Lehrbuch der Herz- und Gafässerkrankungen, Berlin, (1929).
• Lehrbuch der inneren Medizin, 2 volumes; Berlin and Vienna, (1931).
• Arzt seit fünf Jahrzehnten Several editions, (1953-1959).

References

• Theodor Brugsch @ Who Named It