{{short description|Austrian professor and pathologist}} [[File:Feuerhalle Simmering - Arkadenhof - Carl Sternberg, 2016.jpg|thumb|Feuerhalle Simmering, grave of Carl Sternberg]]
'''Carl Sternberg''' (November 20, 1872 – August 15, 1935) was an Austrian pathologist. The Reed–Sternberg cell is named after him and American physician Dorothy Reed Mendenhall.
== Biography ==
===Education=== Sternberg studied medicine at the Medical faculty of the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 1896.<ref>{{cite web|title=Carl Sternberg|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/995.html|website=Whonamedit?}}</ref> He then completed training in general internal medicine at Vienna General Hospital and worked as an assistant to Richard Paltauf. He was habilitated for pathological anatomy in 1903.
===Work in the field=== In 1908, Sternberg moved to Brünn where he taught as a professor until 1926. During World War I, he served as a military physician for the Austrian army where he earned a reputation for advocating for the well-being of the soldiers. Sternberg returned to teaching after the war. Sternberg's research focused mostly on tuberculosis and leukemia. It was through his studies of tuberculosis that he discovered a novel cell that is today called the Reed–Sternberg cell.
===Death=== Sternberg died suddenly of a myocardial infarction in 1935. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where also his ashes are buried.
===Publications=== ''Uber eine eigenartige unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukamie verlaufende Tuberculose des lymphatischen Apparates''. Ztschr Heilk 1898;19:21–90.
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