Johann Lukas Schoenlein (1793-1864) earned a medical degree in Wurzburg in 1816. He served as Professor of Medicine in Wurzburg from 1824-33, Zürich from 1834-40, and Berlin from 1840-59. He described the cutaneous and arthritic symptoms of “Schoenlein’s Disease” in 1841. After 1868, the disease became known as “Schoenlen-Henoch Purpura” after Eduard Henoch (1820-1910), Professor of Pediatrics in Berlin, added abdominal symptoms to the diagnosis. Schoenlein gained fame for bedside teaching, using German instead of Latin, making advances in physical diagnosis, and adding important terms to the medical nomenclature, such as tuberculosis and haemophilia.
- Medal
Bronze. Switzerland 1839. Signed. Lifetime. Struck on behalf of citizens to commemorate his departure from Zürich.
- Size
41 mm
- Artist
Antoine Bovy (1795-1877), Swiss medallist Jean François Antoine Bovy (1795-1877), Swiss medallist from a celebrated family of medallists and coin engravers, all of whom worked for the Geneva Mint. Antoine was naturalized as Frenchman in order to compete for design of French coinage, but he worked in both France and Switzerland (where he also designed the federal coinage). Decorated with the Legion of Honour he was a very prolific medallist and is considered as one of the great masters of the French medallic school. (Forrer 1, 243)
- Obverse
Nude head to left; in a curve at left and right, JOANNES LVCAS – SCHOENLEIN; below, in smaller letters, A. BOVY. F.
- Reverse
JO. LVCÆ / SCHOENLEIN / MEDICO / IN MEMORIAM / VIRTVTIS / ATQVE HONORIS / CIVES / TVRICENSES/ MDCCCXXXIX. / in nine parallel lines, with an ornament below.
- Ref
Freeman 479; Storer 3315; Nilsson 539
