Salomon Stricker Dr. Med., 1834-98

Dr. Salomon Stricker was a cousin (to some degree) of another Salomon Stricker (1817-1899, lederhandler, also from Waag-Neustadtl--then in Hungary, now in Slovakia), who is often confused with Dr. Salomon Stricker in genealogical texts such as Stricker Chronik: Familienname und Biografien by Hans Stricker, 2001 (ISBN 3-9522393-0-5).

He is mentioned in Pester Lloyd death notice of [sister] Charlotte Kramer geb. Stricker, 1908.

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Dr. Salomon Stricker joined the University of Vienna's Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, founded in 1873. He was the author of A Manual of Histology, which was published in the U.S. in 1872. It was in his anatomy lab that Sigmund Freud experimented with the use of cocaine as an anesthetic, in 1884.

In 1890 he resigned from the Jewish faith, at age 56 (genteam.at); he is listed as "ledig" (single). The record gives a birthdate, but it is a date too early to appear in online birth records from Waag-Neustadtl (VagUjhely) in present-day Slovakia.

• Last Name Stricker Dr.
• First Name Salomon
• Date of Birth 1834.01.01
• Place of Birth Neustadtl
• Country Ungarn
• Profession Univ.-Prof.
• Leaving (resignation) 1890 Age 56
• Marital Status ledig
• WStla 17437 IKG 1890/021

Dr. Stricker's Neue Freie Presse death notice appeared April 3, 1898 (see in Media, next tab). An obituary appeared in the British Medical Journal, 1898 April 16; 1(1946): 1048–1049.

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Per Salomon Stricker biography in JewAge.org Wiki:

Salomon Stricker (1 January 1834, Waag-Neustadtl/Vágújhely/Nové Mesto nad Váhom) – 2 April 1898) was an Austrian pathologist and histologist who was born in Waag-Neustadtl, which is now part of Slovakia. He studied at the University of Vienna, and subsequently became a research assistant at the Institute of Physiology under Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. Later he became head of the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology in Vienna.

Stricker is remembered for his extensive studies in the fields of histology and experimental pathology, and is credited with making discoveries involving the diapedesis of erythrocytes and the contractility of vascular walls. He also made contributions in his research of cell division in vivo, the histology of the cornea and the relationship of cells to the extracellular matrix.

Among his written works is the Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere, a two-volume textbook that contains Stricker's essays on histology, along with treatises from several other important physicians and scientists, such as Max Schultze, Wilhelm Kühne, Joseph von Gerlach, Sigmund Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer, Theodor Meynert, Ewald Hering, et al. During its time, it was considered one of the greatest textbooks concerning histology. Stricker was also the author of a number of philosophical works, and from 1871 to 1880 was editor of the Medicinischen Jahrbücher

In his landmark "Interpretation of Dreams", Sigmund Freud [said to be a student of Stricker's] discusses a passage in Stricker's Studien uber das Bewusstsein regarding the expression of affect in dreams (e.g. fear, joy) and the dream's ideational content, and how these two elements compare to the ideational/affective dynamic in an awake state. In his book, Stricker used as an example; "If I am afraid of robbers in my dreams, the robbers, to be sure, are imaginary, but the fear of them is real". It was at Stricker's institute that ophthalmologist Karl Koller, who at the suggestion of Freud, began his experimentation with cocaine as a local anaesthetic.

Selected publications

• Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere (Textbook on the Doctrine of Tissues of Humans and Animals), (1871–73)
• Vorlesungen über allgemeine und experimentelle Pathologie (Lectures on General and Experimental Pathology), (1877–83)
• Studien über das Bewusstsein (Studies on Consciousness), (1879)
• Studien über die Sprachvorstellungen (Studies on Language Performances), (1880)
• Über die Bewegungsvorstellungen (1882)
• Studien über die Association der Vorstellungen (Studies on the Association of Ideas), 1883
• Physiologie des Rechts, (1884).

History of the Department of Pathophysiology, University of Vienna

[1] translated biography @ Pagel:Biographical Dictionary

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Per Karl Holubar, Institute for the History of Medicine, Univ. of Vienna, article on Dr. Salomon Stricker at hrcak.srce.hr/file/35376, entitled "Salomon Stricker 1834-1898: A Pioneer Micro-biologist":

Stricker was of humble origin, born in the then Hungarian City of Vag-Ujhely/ Waag Neustadtl, today Novo Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia. He was Jewish; first attending the Catholic German gymnasium in Pressburg/Pozsony, today Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, thereafter the Protestant gymnasium in Budapest. Medical School he made in Vienna and there he stayed ever after. In the perspective of what is a chronicler, what a historian and what an experimentator, Stricker definitively fell into the latter category but with all the knowledge the former two categories would require. He must have had two outstanding qualities: (i) an extraordinary IQ plus a strong drive for making a career -- well in line with historical scholarly tradition of Jewish education -- and (ii) an equally remarkable dexterity in manual activities. His projection devices he all designed and built by himself, according to his followers, and thereby was able to demonstrate experiments on the walls of his lecture theaters in a final magnification of 10.000-20.000. Some achievement at the time, indeed . . . As with many devoted, enthusiastic investigators, scientists, private life lags behind: Stricker married when he was beyond fifty, his bride was twenty. It must have been love, which falls upon man like a golden cage from above. After eight years of marriage he died - and he left her a fortune. Regrettably, the fortune of Aloisia Stricker was invested in World War I bonds and she died in dire poverty on Christmas Day 1935 in Vienna. Stricker had no children, but his brother
Abraham had, and the progeny is spread over the globe, Australia, USA and beyond [including] Stricker's great-grand-niece, Madame Ann (Stricker) M(ajor) of Sydney, Australia {text contains a photo of A.M.}.

Stricker is described by his followers and pupils as a workaholic. His motto was "docendo discimus", teaching was the core of his scientific activities. The "Handbuch der Gewebelehre" and the series of articles in the Vienna Weekly on experimental pathology amply offer evidence for his theories and perspectives. Allergology of today, by the mere token of immunological mechanisms operative in the antigen-antibody arena, is the playground of modern scientists, exemplified in the new "biologicals" which were beyond anybody's dreams just a quarter of a century ago. Stricker paved the way by demonstrating ad oculos the world of capillaries, diapedesis of cells, cell division in vivo and more.

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From The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 11, page 568:

STRICKER, SALOMON : Austrian pathologist; born at Waag-Neustadt, Hungary, 1834; died at Vienna April 2, 1898. He received his education at the University of Vienna, studying first law, and later medicine (M.D. 1858). In 1859 he joined the staff of the communal hospital at Vienna, where he acted as assistant at several clinics; he resigned this position in 1862, when he became privat-docent in embryology at the University of Vienna. After having acted in the capacity of assistant to Professors Brucke (1863) and Oppolzer (1866), he was in 1868 appointed assistant professor of experimental pathology and director of a new institute built for experimental purposes. In 1872 he was elected professor of general and experimental pathology, which position he held until his death. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna.

Stricker made many contributions to the science of pathology. He was an excellent teacher and an indefatigable worker. In his “Studien” (1869) he attacked Cohnheim’s theory regarding pus and the white blood-corpuscles. although that theory had been generally accepted. He introduced the method of embedding microscopic subjects in wax or gum arabic and thus making them adaptable for microtomy, but this method was soon superseded by that of freezing.

Stricker's contributions to medical journals number about 140, and treat of his discoveries in the histology of the cornea, the mechanism of lymphatic secretion, cell theories, vasomotor centers, etc. Of his works the following may be mentioned: “Untersuchungen fiber die Papillen in der Mundhbhle der Froschlarven " (Vienna, 1857), written while Stricker was a pupil of Professor Brucke; “Studien " (ib. 1869); “Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere" (ib. 1871-73); “ Vor. lesungen fiber die Allgemeine und Experimentelle Pathologie " (ib. 1877-83); “Studien uber das Bewusstsein ” (ib. 1879); “ Studies liber die Sprach vorstellungen" (ib. 1880); “Ueber die Bewegungsvorstellungen ”(ib. 1882); “ Studien uber die Association der Vorstellungen " (ib. 1883); “Physiologie (des Rechts ” (ib. 1884); “ Allgemeine Pathologie der Infectionskrankheiten "(ib. 1886); and “ Die Behandlung der Nervenkrankheiten " (ib. 1891). His works are enumerated in "Dreiszig Jahre Experimenteller Anthologie," an essay which was published at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of his professorship.