Education
He originally studied philosophy and natural sciences in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and later earned his medical degree in Strasbourg in 1883.
He originally studied philosophy and natural sciences in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and later earned his medical degree in Strasbourg in 1883.
Among other contributions to medical knowledge, Lubarsch provided the first detailed description of carcinoid tumors. Subsequently he was an assistant to Hugo Kronecker (1839–1914) at the Institute of Physiology in Bern, and afterwards an assistant at the pathological institutes of Giessen, Breslau and Zurich. In 1905 he became director of the institute of pathology and bacteriology at Zwickau, later serving as a professor in Düsseldorf (from 1907), Kiel (from 1913), and Berlin (1917–1929).
Lubarsch" crystals Tiny crystals in the epithelial cells of the testis that resemble sperm crystals.
Lubarsch–Pick syndrome A combination of systematized amyloidosis with macroglossia. Named in conjunction with pathologist Ludwig Pick (1868–1944).