Theodor Rumpel (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German surgeon
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Place of Birth: GĂĽtersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Theodor Rumpel (surgeon)
- Theodor Rumpel (25 March 1862, Gütersloh – 11 August 1923, Hamburg) was a German surgeon remembered for describing the Rumpel-Leede sign. He received his doctorate in 1887 in Marburg and worked at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital.
- He oversaw the building of the Barmbecker Krankenhaus in Hamburg, of which he became director in 1913.
- Among his better known assistants at Hamburg was bacteriologist Georg Jochmann.With internist Alfred Kast, he was co-author of a patho-anatomical atlas titled: Pathologisch-anatomische Tafeln nach frischen Präparaten mit erläuterndem anatomisch-klinischem Text.
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