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Otto Dornblüth
1860–1922
A German physician and psychiatrist, he is best remembered for creating a medical dictionary that later became famous as the Pschyrembel. His work helped turn specialist language into something doctors and students could actually use.
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Kompendium der Psychiatrie für Studierende und Ärzte
by Otto Dornblüth
About the author
Born in Rostock on March 19, 1860, Otto Dornblüth studied medicine in Rostock, Tübingen, and Munich. He worked in medical and psychiatric clinics early in his career, then served in psychiatric care in Silesia before later practicing as a neurologist in Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden.
Dornblüth is chiefly remembered as the founder and editor of the Klinisches Wörterbuch, a medical dictionary that became one of the best-known reference works in German medicine. In later editions it was associated with editor Willibald Pschyrembel, which is why many readers know the work today simply as the Pschyrembel.
He died in Wiesbaden on December 29, 1922. Even though his name is less widely recognized now than the title his dictionary later carried, his contribution to medical reference publishing left a lasting mark.