Schönlein, JOHANN LUKAS

Schönlein, JOHANN LUKAS, professor of medicine, was born at Bamberg on 30th November 1793, studied medicine at Landshut Würzburg, Jena, and Göttingen, and began to lecture at Würzburg in 1819. In the following year he was appointed professor of Clinics and Therapeutics there; in 1833 he removed to a similar chair at Zurich; and in 1839 he was called to Berlin to be professor of Pathology and Therapeutics, and to preside over the clinical instruction given in the Charité hospital. He retired in 1859, and died at Bamberg on 23d January 1864. His principal merit is that he introduced into Germany the exact methods of study which were in vogue in England and France, and thus founded what was called the Natural History School of Würzburg (see MEDICINE, Vol. VII. p. 119). See Life by Rothlauf (1874).