Background
Lennert, Karl was born on June 4, 1921 in Fü rth, Germany. Son of Johann and Emilie (Theisinger) Lennert.
physician university professor
Lennert, Karl was born on June 4, 1921 in Fü rth, Germany. Son of Johann and Emilie (Theisinger) Lennert.
Doctor of Medicine, University Erlangen, 1945. Habilitation, U. Frankfurt am Main, 1952. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Ghent, 1979.
Certified specialist in pathology.
Resident, instructor Institute of Pathology, Erlangen, West Germany, 1945-1950. Resident department biochemistry Max-Planck-Institut, Gottingen, West Germany, 1950-1951.
Resident, Institute Pathology, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, 1951-1952, privatdozent, 1952-1958. Adjunct professor, 1958-1960;chief resident Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg, West Germany, 1960-1961, provisional director, 1961-1963.
Professor Institute of Pathology, Kiel, West Germany, since 1963, director of institute, since 1963.
Chief of registry Lymph Node Registry, Kiel, since 1965. Founder Kiel Lymphoma Study Group, since 1972. Founding member European Lymphoma Club, since 1973, European Lymphoma Study Group,1982—.
Speaker Kiel Tumor Center, since 1978, Special.
June 4, 1921 in Fürth, Germany – August 27, 2012 in Kiel, Germany) was a German physician and pathologist. After World World War II, Lennert remained in Erlangen until 1950 as a resident physician in the Institute of Pathology. After another year of postgraduate study at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, he joined the department of pathology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main.
There, under the direction of Professor Arnold Lauche, he began his lifelong study of hematopoietic diseases, with emphasis on malignant lymphomas.
In 1963, Lennert was asked to chair the Institute of Pathology at Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) in Kiel. This was a prestigious appointment, because at that time, 75% of department chairs at CAU were the sons of prominent Professors of Medicine in Germany.
His students included Reza Parwaresch, Martin-Leo Hansmann, H.J. Radzun, Alfred Feller, Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink, and Peter M. Banks. Lennert worked closely with clinicians in the Collaborative Research Centre 111 of the German Research Foundation, principally represented by Doctorates
Arnulf Thiede and Wolfram Sterry.
Lennert was the founding president of the European Association of Hematopathology. In 1989 he became a Professor Emeritus in Kiel. Around 1975, Lennert began work on a system of nosological classification for malignant lymph node tumors (non-Hodgkin lymphomas) that was predicated on the cytomorphological and biochemical attributes of developing lymphoid cells.
lieutenant was meant to supplement or supersede other schemes that were existence at that time, including the Lukes-Collins system and the Rappaport classification.
Lennert"s paradigm quickly gained traction among pathologists in Europe and became known as the "Kiel classification". Later, other systems of nosology for malignant lymphoma were introduced, including the Revised European American Lymphoma Classification (REAL) scheme in 1994, and the World Health Organization system of 2001, which are now preferentially in clinical use.
Doctor Lennert is also recognized for first describing a variant of peripheral T-cell lymphoma in 1952, which he termed "lymphoepithelioid lymphoma." lieutenant is now commonly and eponymously called "Lennert"s lymphoma." In total, Lennert contributed over 300 scholarly papers and 4 textbooks to the medical literature during his working life. Lennert accumulated a large and unique teaching archive of lymphoma cases in his department at Kiel.
He had developed a personal-professional relationship with Uwe Barschel, a prominent West German politician in the 1980s, and Barschel assured him that funds would be supplied to preserve the archive in a special institute at the time of Lennert"s retirement.
However, the politician was involved in a scandal in 1987 and he died at that time under questionable circumstances. Hence, his promise to Doctor Lennert was never fulfilled.
Fellow International Academy Cytology. Member Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (senator, Schleiden medal 1980), German Society Cytology, (president 1972-1974), German Society Pathology (president 1982-1983). Member, honorary; member, correspondent.
Member various other German and international organizations.
Married Amanda Heyer. Children: Monika LennertBö ske, Claudia Lennert Mü ller.