Blaschko, alfred

(¤ 1858, † 1922) Alfred Blaschko was born on 4.3.1858 as the son of a doctor in Bad Freienwalde an der Oder. School education in Berlin. From 1876 he studied medicine. Doctorate in 1880, followed by 2 years of surgical and internal medicine training in Stettin. In 1883 he settled as a dermatologist in Berlin. Publications on the history of development and anatomy of the epidermis. Later works on industrial dermatoses. In 1886 he reported on the detection of silver in the skin of metal workers. As early as 1892, he devoted himself to combating venereal diseases, which later became his real field of work.In 1902, along with Alfred Blaschko, Eugen Galewsky and Albert Neisser, he was one of the founders of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases in the Berlin City Hall.

The introduction of the new Reich Law for the Control of Venereal Diseases, in the formulation of which he played a decisive role, is regarded as the crowning achievement of his life's work. Alfred Blaschko died on 26 March 1922 at the age of 64. However, Blaschko's name remains well known due to his description of the so-called Blaschko lines in 1901, for which no morphological correlate has been found to date. Blaschko painted the lines at that time on a Greek statue, which he later placed in his study. Field(s) of research: Blaschko lines; Ontogenesis and anatomy of the epidermis; Venereology.

1. Blaschko A (1901) The nerve distribution in the skin in its relation to skin diseases. Supplement to the negotiations of the German Dermatological Society VII Congress, Breslau. Brewer, Vienna