Christian Georg Schmorl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German pathologist
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Place of Birth: Mügeln, Saxony, Germany
About Christian Georg Schmorl
- Christian Georg Schmorl (2 May 1861 – 14 August 1932) was a German pathologist who was a native of Mügeln in the Kingdom of Saxony.
- He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where in 1892 he obtained his habilitation for forensic medicine.
- Up until 1894 he worked as an assistant under pathologist Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld at the university.
- For most of his career (1894-1931) he was associated with the city hospital in Dresden (Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt).
- Schmorl is remembered for his work in histology and his studies of the human skeleton.
- He created an histological stain especially designed to show the canaliculi and lamellae in sections of bone.
- He also described protrusions of the intervertebral disc into the vertebral body.
- These protrusions are now known as Schmorl's nodes.
- Shortly before his death, Schmorl published Die Gesunde und Kranke Wirbelsäule (The Healthy and Sick Spine).
- He died from sepsis caused by an infected finger, which he nicked in the process of dissecting a spine. In 1904 Schmorl coined the term kernicterus to describe nuclear jaundice of the basal ganglia.
- This condition was earlier identified in 1875 by pathologist Johannes Orth (1847-1923).
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