Carl Heinrich Auspitz (2 September 1835 in

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– 22 May 1886 in

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) was a

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. He was the husband of pianist Auguste Auspitz-Kólar (1843–1878).Statement(s) based on translated text from an equivalent article at the

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. He was a member of the famous Moravian-Austrian . Heinrich was a son of Jewish surgeon (1803, Nikolsburg 1880). His younger brother (1838, Nikolsburg 1907) was an Imperial & Royal ''

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'' and writer. In 1840, Moritz was given a job at a Jewish hospital in Vienna, and allowed better education to his sons. Trained at the

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, he specialized in dermatology and

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. He was part of the so-called

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, and studied and worked with several eminent physicians of the time; Ernst Wilhelm (Ritter von) Brücke (1819, Berlin 1892), Karel ''(Carl)'' Freiherr von Rokytanský (1804, Bohemia 1878),

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(1805, Bohemia 1881),

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(1808, Bohemia 1871), and

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(1816, Moravia 1880). In 1863 he became a

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of dermatology and syphilis, and during the following year began work in the

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institute of

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. In 1872 he was named director of the general policlinic, and from 1875 onward, was an associate professor at the

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. A pioneer in tissue

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, he described the pinpoint

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on removal of a

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scale that bears his name: "

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". In 1885 he published an article involving

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titled "''Ein Fall von Granuloma fungoides (Mycosis fungoides Alibert)''". Together with

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(1834-1910), he founded first German-language magazine for dermatology, the "''Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis''" (1869). In 1882 he became a member of the

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. In May 1886 he died from a heart condition, and was interred in the ''Wiener Zentralfriedhof''.

Award

Since 2005, the "Heinrich Auspitz Preis" has been awarded by the Wyeth and Pfizer Corporation Austria in order to promote scientific research in the field of dermatology.

Selected works

* ''Anatomie des Blattenprocesses''. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1863. * ''Die Lehren vom Syphilitischen Contagium und ihre thatsächliche Begründung''; 384 pages. Wien, W. Braumüller, 1866. * ''Die Zelleninfiltrationen der Lederhaut bei Lupus, Syphilis und Skrophylose''. Medizinische Jahrbücher, Wien, 1866. * ''Über das Verhältnis der Oberhaut zur Papillarschicht, insbesondere bei pathologischen Zuständen der Haut''. Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, Berlin, 1870; 2: 24-58.Heinrich Auspitz - bibliography
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Notes and references

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Auspitz, Heinrich 1835 births 1886 deaths 19th-century Austrian scientists 19th-century Czech people Austrian dermatologists Academics of the University of Vienna University of Vienna alumni 19th-century Austrian Jews Austrian people of Czech-Jewish descent People from Mikulov