Johann Heinrich Rille (10 December 1864 in Brünn – 14 December 1956 in ) was an Austrian dermatologist and venereologist.
From 1883 to 1891 he studied archaeology, linguistics, anthropology and medicine at the universities of Vienna and Graz. From 1892 he served as an assistant to Isidor Neumann at Vienna,Rille, Johann Heinrich Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1389-1390. where in 1897 he obtained his habilitation for dermatology. In 1898 he became an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck,Plett - Schmidseder / edited by Walther Killy Dictionary of German Biography and four years later succeeded dermatologist Gustav Riehl at the University of Leipzig.Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland by Albrecht Scholz In 1904 he became an honorary professor of dermatology at Leipzig, followed by a full professorship in 1919. In 1921/22 he served as dean to the medical faculty.Prof. Dr. med. Johann Heinrich Rille Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig In 1940 he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
In 1922 he was the first to describe the distinctive features of a condition later known as ichthyosis linearis circumflexa ("Rille-Comél disease").Dermatology by Otto Braun-Falco, Gerd Plewig, Helmut H. Wolff, Richard K. WinkelmannTrichorrhexis Invaginata (Netherton Syndrome or Bamboo Hair) Medscape With Paul Gerson Unna, he was editor of the journals Dermatologische Wochenschrift and Dermatologischen Studien.
Selected works Lehrbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankeinheiten – Textbook of skin and sexual diseases. Creeping disease (with Rudolf Erhard Riecke) In: Handbuch der Hautkrankheiten, volume 4, 2, 1909 – Creeping disease.Rudolf Erhard Riecke - bibliography at Who Named It Die Schädigungen der Haut durch Beruf und gewerbliche Arbeit, (with Karl Ullmann; Moriz Oppenheim; 3 volumes, 1922–26) – Damage of the skin caused by professional and commercial work.OCLC WorldCat Published works
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