Max Rothmann

Max Rothmann
Max Rothmann
Born	April 26, 1868(1868-04-26) Berlin, Germany
Died	August 12, 1915(1915-08-12) (aged 47) Berlin, Germany Suicide
Nationality	German

Max Rothmann (April 26, 1868 - August 12, 1915) was a German neuroanatomist and physiologist who was a native of Berlin.

Biography

He was born on April 26, 1868 in Berlin. His father Oskar Rothmann (1834-1915) was the physician and "Sanitätsrat".

He studied medicine in Berlin and Freiburg. In 1889 he earned his medical doctorate at Berlin. In 1891 he worked in Carl Weigert's laboratory, then he was an assistant to Albert Fraenkel in Krankenhaus am Urban.

Rothmann was the catalyst concerning the establishment of an anthropological research station in the Canary Islands, which was subsequently founded at Orotava, Tenerife in 1913 with Eugen Teuber (1889-1958) as its first director. In 1914 Rothmann became director of Neurologisches Centralblatt.

In August, 1915, at the age of 47, Rothmann committed suicide. He was buried in Jüdischer Friedhof Schönhauser Allee, Berlin-Pankow^[1]. Obituaries were written by Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863-1940)^[2], Hermann Oppenheim^[3], Hugo Liepmann^[4] and Smith Ely Jelliffe^[5].

Family

Max Rothmann was married to Anna Neumann (1871–1936)^[6]; they had at least four children. Elder son Otto (1896–1914) was killed in World War I^[7]. Hans (1899–1970) studied medicine and continued some of neuroanatomical works of his father; he emigrated to USA. Daughter Eva Rothmann (1897–1960) was psychologist and married Kurt Goldstein^[8][9][10]. The second daughter was Grete Rothmann-Arons.

Legacy

His name is lent to "Rothmann-Makai panniculitis", which is a disease named along with Hungarian surgeon Endre Makai (1884-1972). This disorder is sometimes referred to as lipogranulomatosis subcutanea, and is a rare variant of Weber-Christian disease.

References

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten (Haude & Spener:Berlin) 2006, p. 142 ISBN 3-7759-0476-X
2. ^ Jacobsohn L. Nachruf auf Max Rothmann †. Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie. 38: 252–256 (1915)
3. ^ Oppenheim H. Zum Andenken an Max Rothmann. Neurol Centralblatt. 34: 674–677 (1915)
4. ^ Liepmann H. Gedenkworte auf Max Rothmann. Sitzung vom 8. November 1915. Berliner Gresellschaft für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten. Zeitschrift f Nervheilkunde. doi:10.1007/BF02100263
5. ^ Jelliffe SE. Obituaries. Max Rothmann. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: 77–78 (1917)
6. ^ Arthur Czellitzer: Jüdische Familien-forschung. Gesellschaft für Jüdische Familien-Forschung, p. 14.
7. ^ Teuber ML. The founding of the Primate Station, Tenerife, Canary Islands. American Journal of Psychology. 107: 551–581 (1994).
8. ^ Abraham Aaron Roback: History of American Psychology. Collier Books, 1964, p. 337.
9. ^ Götz Aly, Wolf Gruner: Deutsches Reich 1933–1937. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, p. 145. ISBN 3486584804
10. ^ Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer: Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology: Volume V. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 133, 137, 138. ISBN 0805844147

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the Polish Wikipedia.

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Name	Rothmann, Max
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Date of birth	April 26, 1868
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death	August 12, 1915
Place of death	Berlin, Germany