Otto Lubarsch

Otto Lubarsch (4 January 1860 – 1 April 1933) was a German pathologist and academic who was a native of Berlin.

He originally studied philosophy and natural sciences in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and later on, earned his medical degree at the University of Strasbourg in 1883.

In 1905 he became director of the institute of pathology and bacteriology at Zwickau, later serving as a professor in Düsseldorf (from 1907), Kiel (from 1913), and Berlin (1917–1929).

In 1888 Lubarsch provided the first detailed description of carcinoid tumors during autopsies of two male "patients",[1] however it wouldn't be until 1907 that the term karzinoid was applied by Siegfried Oberndorfer.

With Friedrich Henke (1868–1943), he was editor of the Henke-Lubarsch Handbuch der Speziellen Pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie, which was a massive reference book containing information germane to pathology.