Portrait of a German Pathologist, Robert Langerhans
Photographer: Johann Theodor Prümm (1841-1890), Berlin, Unter den Linden 51; working period ca. 1863-1878 cf. www.fotorevers.eu/de/catalog1.php?details=1715 . He won medals in Berlin (1865), Hamburg (1868) and Wien (1873).
Date: 1888 (printed on the reverse), but dedicated to Alexandru Obregia, on 30 August 1890.
Location: Berlin, Germany
The portrayed: Robert Langerhans (1859-1904) was assistant of Rudolf Virchow and later professor of Pathology in Berlin (at Moabit Hospital). In 1896, his son Ernst died shortly after being injected (by his father) with a prophylactic dose of anti-diphtheria serum. The father, claimed, in the obituary notice, that his son had been poisoned by Behring's anti-diphtheria serum, which generated a scandal (see more at
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17144617 ).
Robert Langerhans was the step-brother of Paul Langerhans who discovered the pancreatic structures called the Langerhans islets (that produce Insulin)
Format: CDV (unfortunately, the borders have been cut for insertion in the album !)
N.B.: It is the single photo of Robert Langerhans, to be found on the net!
(By courtesy of Mrs. Lilian Theil)
Portrait of a German Pathologist, Robert Langerhans
Photographer: Johann Theodor Prümm (1841-1890), Berlin, Unter den Linden 51; working period ca. 1863-1878 cf. www.fotorevers.eu/de/catalog1.php?details=1715 . He won medals in Berlin (1865), Hamburg (1868) and Wien (1873).
Date: 1888 (printed on the reverse), but dedicated to Alexandru Obregia, on 30 August 1890.
Location: Berlin, Germany
The portrayed: Robert Langerhans (1859-1904) was assistant of Rudolf Virchow and later professor of Pathology in Berlin (at Moabit Hospital). In 1896, his son Ernst died shortly after being injected (by his father) with a prophylactic dose of anti-diphtheria serum. The father, claimed, in the obituary notice, that his son had been poisoned by Behring's anti-diphtheria serum, which generated a scandal (see more at
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17144617 ).
Robert Langerhans was the step-brother of Paul Langerhans who discovered the pancreatic structures called the Langerhans islets (that produce Insulin)
Format: CDV (unfortunately, the borders have been cut for insertion in the album !)
N.B.: It is the single photo of Robert Langerhans, to be found on the net!
(By courtesy of Mrs. Lilian Theil)