Heinrich Auspitz

{{Short description|Jewish Austrian dermatologist}}

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Carl Heinrich Auspitz (2 September 1835 in Nikolsburg, Moravia – 22 May 1886 in Vienna) was a JewishHans Morgenstern, "Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon. Eine Sammlung von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten jüdischer Herkunft ab 1800", {{Interlanguage link multi|Lit Verlag|de}}, Wien; p. 40 Austrian dermatologist. He was the husband of pianist Auguste Auspitz-Kólar (1843–1878).Statement(s) based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

He was a member of the famous Moravian-Austrian {{Interlanguage link multi|Auspitz (family)|de|3=Auspitz (Familie)|lt=Auspitz Family}}. Heinrich was a son of Jewish surgeon {{Interlanguage link multi|Moritz Auspitz|de|3=Moritz Auspitz|lt=Moritz}} (1803, Nikolsburg {{ndash}} 1880). His younger brother {{Interlanguage link multi|Leopold Auspitz|de|3=Leopold Auspitz|lt=Leopold}} (1838, Nikolsburg {{ndash}} 1907) was an Imperial & Royal Generalmajor and writer. In 1840, Moritz was given a job at a Jewish hospital in Vienna, and allowed better education to his sons.

Trained at the University of Vienna, he specialized in dermatology and syphilis. He was part of the so-called Vienna School of Dermatology, and studied and worked with several eminent physicians of the time; Ernst Wilhelm (Ritter von) Brücke (1819, Berlin {{ndash}} 1892), Karel (Carl) Freiherr von Rokytanský (1804, Bohemia {{ndash}} 1878), Josef Škoda (1805, Bohemia {{ndash}}1881), Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (1808, Bohemia {{ndash}} 1871), and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816, Moravia {{ndash}}1880).

In 1863 he became a privat-docent of dermatology and syphilis, and during the following year began work in the histological institute of Carl Wedl. In 1872 he was named director of the general policlinic, and from 1875 onward, was an associate professor at the university.

A pioneer in tissue pathology, he described the pinpoint bleeding on removal of a psoriasis scale that bears his name: "Auspitz's sign".[http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/101.html Auspitz' symptom] @ Who Named It In 1885 he published an article involving mycosis fungoides titled "Ein Fall von Granuloma fungoides (Mycosis fungoides Alibert)".[http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/98.html Alibert-Bazin syndrome] @ Who Named It

Together with Philipp Josef Pick (1834-1910), he founded first German-language magazine for dermatology, the "Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis" (1869). In 1882 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In May 1886 he died from a heart condition, and was interred in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof.