title: [Early description of a pulmonary aspergillosis 1847 from Greifswald].
abstract: In 1847 the student of medicine Theodor Sluyter (1817-1895) from Greifswald published his thesis in Berlin including the first well-documented case of human pulmonary aspergillosis. In 1856 Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) classified the depicted fungi as an Aspergillus species. Possibly Carl Ferdinand Eichstedt (1816-1892) carried out the autopsy. He is known by the first description of a fungus as the cause of pityriasis versicolor in 1846. Further involved scientists from Greifswald were Wilhelm Baum (1799-1883), Theodor Litzmann (1815-1890) and the botanist Johann Konrad Schauer (1813-1848). Their curricula vitae are given in further details as well the curriculum of T. Sluyter.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin A, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Germany. gastrokn@mail.uni-greifswald.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knoke
authors.forename: Hannelore
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bernhardt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schwesinger
mesh_terms: D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D001230:Aspergillus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009172:Mycology / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Frühe Beschreibung einer pulmonalen Aspergillose 1847 aus Greifswald.