Theodor Rumpel (25 March 1862,

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

– 11 August 1923,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

) was a German

surgeon In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...

remembered for describing the Rumpel-Leede sign. He received his doctorate in 1887 in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

and worked at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital. He oversaw the building of the Barmbecker Krankenhaus in Hamburg, of which he became director in 1913. Among his better known assistants at Hamburg was

bacteriologist A bacteriologist is a microbiologist, or similarly trained professional, in bacteriology -- a subdivision of microbiology that studies bacteria, typically Pathogenic bacteria, pathogenic ones. Bacteriologists are interested in studying and learnin ...

Georg Jochmann Georg Jochmann (11 October 1874, in Liegnitz – 6 January 1915, in Berlin) was a German internist and bacteriologist, who specialized in infectious diseases. In 1898 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Freiburg, and followin ...

. With internist

Alfred Kast Alfred Kast (25 July 1856 in Illenau, near Achern – 7 January 1903) was a German internist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1879. He served as an assistant to Wilhelm Heinri ...

, he was co-author of a patho-anatomical atlas titled: ''Pathologisch-anatomische Tafeln nach frischen Präparaten mit erläuterndem anatomisch-klinischem Text''.WorldCat Titles
Pathologisch-anatomische Tafeln

References

1862 births 1923 deaths People from Gütersloh German surgeons University of Marburg alumni {{Germany-med-bio-stub