Andreas Röschlaub
German physician
Died when: 66 years 259 days (800 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Andreas Röschlaub (21 October 1768 – 7 July 1835) was a German physician born in Lichtenfels, Bavaria.He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Bamberg, gaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1795.
In 1798 he became a full professor of pathology at Bamberg, and in 1802 transferred to the University of Landshut, where he was director of the medical school.
In 1826 he relocated to the University of Munich as a professor of medicine.He died on 7 July 1835 during a recreational trip to Ulm.
Röschlaub is remembered for development of the Erregbarkeitstheorie (excitability theory), which was a modification of Brownianism, a speculative theory of medicine that was initially formulated by Scottish physician John Brown (1735–1788).
He was editor of Magazin zur Vervollkommnung der theoretischen und praktischen Heilkunde (Magazine for the Perfection of Theoretical and Practical Medicine), and the author of a textbook on classification of diseases titled Lehrbuch der Nosologie.
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