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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on August 3, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(10):1303-1306; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel258
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Wegener's granulomatosis—probing the untold past of the man behind the eponym

A. Woywodt and E. L. Matteson1

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany and 1Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Correspondence to: A. Woywodt, MD, MRCP, Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. E-mail: Woywodt.Alexander@MH-Hannover.de

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   Introduction
 
In 1936, Friedrich Wegener described cases of a peculiar small-vessel vasculitis with granulomatous inflammation [1]. Particularly with the publication of a review of 22 cases and seven of their own by Godman and Churg [2] in 1954, the disorder became more widely known as Wegener's granulomatosis. Wegener faded into obscurity until the 1980s, when he began to receive more personal attention until his death in 1990. The life of Friedrich Wegener has been described in great detail [3] but his involvement with the Nazi regime remained little known until very recently [4]. Here, we describe the process of research that led to these discoveries about his past and provide more details about it. We also discuss the continued use of the eponym.


   An incomplete article about Friedrich Wegener
 
In summer 2000, Lancet's newly created ‘Eponyms’ section prompted us to write an article on Friedrich Wegener. We . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   German archives
 

   Archives in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere
 

   Archives in Poland
 
A letter on air embolism
The ‘Warthegau’ as a model of German occupation

   Martin Staemmler
 

   Conclusion
 

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