Pick, filipp josef

(¤ 1834, † 1910) Dermatologist, active in Vienna, Prague. Born in Neustadt an der Mettlau/Bohemia, he initially studied biology and zoology in Vienna, but later devoted himself entirely to medicine under the influence of the Viennese pathologist Carl Rokitansky and the internist Josef Skoda. 1860 doctorate. Dermatological training with Karl Ludwig Sigmund and Ferdinand v. Hebra. 1866 move to Prague. Habilitation 1868 with the topic "Ueber das Eczema marginatum". 1869 Founds the "Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis" together with Heinrich Auspitz. 1873 appointment as associate professor and director of the new clinic for skin and venereal diseases. In 1889 Pick founded the German Dermatological Society together with Moriz Kaposi, Josef Doutrelepont, Edmund Lesser and Albert Neisser. 1896 Appointed full professor of the subject. In 1889 he organized the 1st meeting of the German Dermatological Society in Prague, which was attended by 51 persons.

Field(s) of research: Dermatomycoses; 1900 first case report on 3 patients with "erythromelia", cases which Karl Herxheimer and Kuno Hartmann assigned to acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans in 1902 (Morbus Pick-Herxheimer-Hartmann). Pick's successor at the Prague Dermatological Clinic was Karl Kreibich in 1906.

1. Scholz A et al (2009) History of German-speaking dermatology, S. 560-564 Wiley-Blackwell Verlag