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Marie-Stümpell Spondylitis

JAMA. 1970;212(5):875-876.

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Adolph Strümpell was born in Neu-Autz, Kurland, in the Baltic Province of Russia. He spent his childhood in nearby Dorpat, where his father was professor of philosophy, an intellectual among the Teutonic minority in a Slavic land.¹ Adolph studied philosophy and psychology at Prague before he turned to medicine at Dorpat; there Stieda and von Bergmann were on the faculty. His medical studies were completed at Leipzig with Wunderlich, Thiersch, Credé, and Ludwig. Following graduation in 1875, Strümpell served as assistant to Wunderlich in internal diseases, studied in Vienna, and qualified privatdocent at Leipzig, serving on the faculty with Wagner, Cohnheim, Weigert, and Erb.

In 1883, Strümpell accepted a call to Heidelberg as professor and director of the Medical Polyclinic and completed his text on internal diseases.² The treatise was translated into English four years later by Vickery and Knapp, with a preface by F. C. Shattuck.³ From . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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