Prof. Johannes Orth

Abstract

PROF. JOHANNES ORTH, whose death is announced, was born in 1847 at Wallmerod in Nassau. He received his medical and scientific training chiefly at Bonn, where he studied pathology under Rind-fleisch, whose assistant he afterwards became. Later, he was appointed assistant to Virchow in Berlin. In 1878 he was appointed professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy in Göttingen and afterwards received the title of Geh. Med.—Rat. In 1902, on the death of Virchow, he was elected to the chair of pathology in the University of Berlin, and since then his energies have been devoted chiefly to the development of the Institute of Pathology, which was founded and equipped by Virchow.