Hermann Senator

Hermann Senator studied at Berlin from 1853 to 1857, particularly as a pupil of Johannes Müller (1801-1858), under whom he was Amanuensis for one and a half year. Among his teachers were also Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864) and Ludwig Traube (1818-1876).

Senator received his medical doctorate in 1857 and was approbiert as a physician in 1858. In 1868 was habilitated as Privatdozent for internal medicine and Staatsarzneikunde at the Berlin University. He became extraordinary professor in 1875, and from that year was physician-in-chief in the department of internal medicine at the Augusta-Hospital, from 1881 head physician at the Berlin Charité.

Following the death of Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885) he headed the first medical clinic at Berlin for half a year. This department of his at the Charité in 1888 was made into the third medical clinic, expanded and placed under the policlinic under his directorship. Senator was named ordinary honorary professor in 1899.

From 1872 Senator was co-editor of Centralblatt für die medizinischen Wissenschaften.

• Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.
  Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1873.
  His study of fever represents his best work.
• Handbuch der Krankheitren des Bewegungsapparates. Erkältungskrankheiten.
  Bearbeidet von H. Senator, E. Seitz, V. F. Birch-Hirschfeld, 1879. VIII + 636 pages.
• Die Albuminurie in physiologischer und klinischer Beziehung und ihre Behandlung.
  Berlin, 1881, 1890.
• Die Albuminurie im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
  Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1882.
  Translated into several foreign languages, the English translation occasioned by the Sydenham Society. 2nd edition 1890.
• Die Krankheiten des Bewegungsapparates. Diabetes Mellitus und insipidus.
  In Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829-1902): Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. 2nd edition, 1879.
• Die Erkrankungen der Nieren.
  In: Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905), et al, publisher: Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Vienna, Vienna, 1896, 1902.
• Ueber Pseudoleukämie. In: Ernst von Leyden (1832-1910) and Felix Klemperer (1866-1932), publishers: Die Deutsche Klinik am Eingange des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in akademischen Vorlesungen. Volume 3, Constitutionsanomalien und Blutkrankheiten, 1903. Berlin und Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg.
• Krankheiten und Ehe.
  With Siegfrid Kaminer (1872-1930). Munich, 1904.
  English translation, New York and London, 1904; London, 1907, 1924.
• Diseases of kidney and the spleen hemorrhagic diseases.
  Philadelphia, 1905.
• Polycythämie und Plethora. Berlin, 1911. Obituaries etc:
  
• Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1911; 48: 1961-1968.
  (Johannes Karl August Eugen Alfred Goldscheider, 1858-1935).
• Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1911, pp. 1733-1735. (Alfred Wolff-Eisner, 1877-1948)
• Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1904, page 2189. Picture. (Hans Kohn, 1866-)
• Reinhold Ledemann (1865-):
  Senator’s Arbeiten über Hautfunktion, Hautkrankheiten und Syphilis.
  Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1904, pp. 1280-1283.