Morris Simmonds


Morris Simmonds (born January 14, 1855 in St. Thomas, September 4, 1925 in Hamburg) is a German physician, pathologist.

He was born on the island of Saint Thomas in Denmark, and in 1861 he and his family moved to Hamburg. He attended the Johanneum gymnasium in Hamburg. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, Leipzig, Munich and Kiel. The title of doctor of medicine was awarded in 1879 in Kiel. From 1879 to 1880 he was an assistant at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Kiel, from 1880 to 1882 as an assistant in the surgical clinic of that university, and from 1882 to 1884 he worked as an assistant at the General Hospital in Hamburg. For years he was a free physician in Hamburg.

In 1889 he became an assistant professor at the Institute of Pathology at St. George Hospital. In 1909 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg.

He conducted research on the pathology of internal glands, genital organs, infectious diseases. In total, 121 scientific papers have been published. As the first in 1914 he described pituitary gland, also known as Glycine-Simmonds disease. Bibliography

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