Heinrich Albers-Schönberg

Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (January 21, 1865 - June 4, 1921) was a German gynecologist and radiologist who was a native of Hamburg. He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig, where he earned his doctorate in 1891. Afterwards he was an assistant at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital, and then in Leipzig as an assistant to Paul Zweifel (1848-1927). Later he settled in Hamburg as a gynecologist and obstetrician. In 1897 he founded the first x-ray clinic and laboratory with internist Georg Deycke (1865-1938), and in 1919 became a full professor and chair of radiology at the newly established University of Hamburg.

Albers-Schönberg was one of the earliest specialists in the field of radiological medicine. He was the first to discover the damage x-rays inflict upon the reproductive system, and is credited with providing a description of osteopetrosis, also known as Albers-Schönberg disease. In 1903 he introduced a device that provided clarity and intensity for x-ray images by filtering out oblique rays.

With Dr. Georg Deycke he founded the journal Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen, and in 1906 authored a book on radiological techniques for doctors and students, called Die Röntgentechnik.

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