Samuel Siegmund Rosenstein

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Samuel Siegmund Rosenstein (20 February 1832, Berlin – 31 January 1906, The Hague) was a German physician. He was the son of Rabbi Elhanan Rosenstein. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Berlin and earned his medical degree in 1854. From 1856 to 1858 he worked as an assistant at the general hospital in Danzig, then practiced medicine in Berlin. He earned his habilitation in 1864 and later became a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Groningen (from 1866) and the University of Leiden (from 1873). In 1898 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. His best-known work is Die Pathologie und Therapie der Nierenkrankheiten (Pathology and Therapy of Kidney Diseases), published in several editions. His Einleitung zu den Krankheiten des Herzens (Introduction to Diseases of the Heart) was included in Ziemssen's Handbook of the Special Pathology and Therapy. He also wrote many medical papers published in Virchows Archiv.