- Salomon Ehrmann
Salomon Ehrmann (
December 19 ,1854 -October 24 ,1926 ) was a Jewish-Austriandermatologist andhistologist who was born in the village ofOstrovec , which today is part of theCzech Republic . He was an important member of the celebratedVienna School of Dermatology , which was originally founded byFerdinand von Hebra (1816-1888).Ehrmann was a pupil of histopathologist
Carl Wedl (1815-1891) at theUniversity of Vienna , and later became director of the dermatological department atVienna General Hospital . He specialized in the field ofsyphilology , and is remembered for his research involving the parasite "Spirochaetae pallida" (the causative agent of syphilis), and its spread throughout the human body.In 1895 he described acne keloidalis, which he referred to as "
folliculitis nuchae sclerotisans". Among his written works was a comparative diagnostic atlas of skin diseases called "Vergleichend-diagnostischer Atlas der Hautkrankheiten und der Syphilide". Other published works by Ehrmann include:
* "Kompendium der speziellen Histopathologie der Haut" (with Johannes Fick), 1905
* "Uber die Beziehungen der Spirochaeta pallida zu den Lymph- und Blutbahnen"
* "Die Phagocytose und die Degenerationsformen der Spirochaete pallida im Primäraffekt und Lymphstrang", 1906
* "Beziehungen der ekzematösen Erkrankungen zu inneren Leiden", 1924.References
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.e/e274841.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Salomon%2BEhrmann%2522%2B1854%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN AEIOU; Short Biography]
* cite book
title=The British Journal of Dermatology
author=British Association of Dermatology
year=1908
publisher=H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd.
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wP0DAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA24&lpg=RA1-PA24&dq=%22Folliculitis+Nuchae+Sclerotisans%22&source=web&ots=HR8aWjYKNG&sig=i4XUOkyjH7H-vEY8_Uxb4utaUlU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
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