{{Short description|German neuroanatomist and physiologist (1868–1915)}} {{Expand Polish|topic=bio|Max Rothmann|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Max Rothmann |image =Max_Rothmann_(ca._1890).jpg |image_size = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|4|26}} |birth_place = Berlin, Germany |residence = |death_date = {{death date and age|1915|8|12|1868|4|26}} |death_place = Berlin, Germany |field = |work_institution = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = }}'''Max Rothmann''' (April 26, 1868 – August 12, 1915) was a German neuroanatomist and physiologist who was a native of Berlin.
==Biography== He was born on April 26, 1868, in Berlin, into a Jewish family.<ref>Leonard Barkan, ''Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion'', University of Chicago Press (2016), p. 34</ref> His father Oskar Rothmann (1834-1915) was the physician and "Sanitätsrat".
He studied medicine in Berlin and Freiburg. In 1889 he earned his medical doctorate at Berlin. In 1891 he worked in Carl Weigert's laboratory, then he was an assistant to Albert Fraenkel in ''Krankenhaus am Urban''.
Rothmann was the catalyst concerning the establishment of an anthropological research station in the Canary Islands, which was subsequently founded at Orotava, Tenerife in 1913 with Eugen Teuber (1889-1958) as its first director. Wolfgang Köhler was an important scientific colleague at the Tenerife-Institute. In 1914, Rothmann became director of ''Neurologisches Centralblatt''.
In August, 1915, at the age of 47, Rothmann committed suicide. He was buried in ''Jüdischer Friedhof Schönhauser Allee'', Berlin-Pankow.<ref>Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten (Haude & Spener:Berlin) 2006, p. 142 {{ISBN|3-7759-0476-X}}</ref> Obituaries were written by Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863-1940),<ref>Jacobsohn L. Nachruf auf Max Rothmann †. Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie. 38: 252–256 (1915)</ref> Hermann Oppenheim,<ref>Oppenheim H. Zum Andenken an Max Rothmann. Neurol Centralblatt. 34: 674–677 (1915)</ref> Hugo Liepmann<ref>Liepmann H. Gedenkworte auf Max Rothmann. Sitzung vom 8. November 1915. Berliner Gresellschaft für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten. Zeitschrift f Nervheilkunde. {{doi|10.1007/BF02100263}}</ref> and Smith Ely Jelliffe.<ref>Jelliffe SE. Obituaries. Max Rothmann. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: 77–78 (1917)</ref>
==Family== Max Rothmann was married to Anna Neumann (1871–1936);<ref>Arthur Czellitzer: Jüdische Familien-forschung. Gesellschaft für Jüdische Familien-Forschung, p. 14.</ref> they had at least four children. Elder son Otto (1896–1914) was killed in World War I.<ref>Teuber ML. The founding of the Primate Station, Tenerife, Canary Islands. American Journal of Psychology. 107: 551–581 (1994).</ref> Hans (1899–1970) studied medicine and continued some of neuroanatomical works of his father; he emigrated to USA. Daughter Eva Rothmann (1897–1960) was psychologist and married Kurt Goldstein.<ref>Abraham Aaron Roback: History of American Psychology. Collier Books, 1964, p. 337.</ref><ref>Götz Aly, Wolf Gruner: Deutsches Reich 1933–1937. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, p. 145. {{ISBN|3-486-58480-4}}</ref><ref>Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer: Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology: Volume V. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 133, 137, 138. {{ISBN|0-8058-4414-7}}</ref> The second daughter was Grete Rothmann-Arons.
==Legacy== His name is lent to "Rothmann-Makai panniculitis", which is a disease named along with Hungarian surgeon Endre Makai (1884-1972). This disorder is sometimes referred to as lipogranulomatosis subcutanea, and is a rare variant of Weber–Christian disease.
== References == <references/> * ''This article is based on a translation of an article from the Polish Wikipedia.''
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