| Michael Joseph Rossbach | |
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1842 |
| Birth Place: | Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation |
| Death Place: | Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire |
| Nationality: | German |
| Fields: | Pharmacology |
| Alma Mater: | University of Würzburg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Humboldt University of Berlin Charles University |
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Michael Joseph Rossbach (12 February 1842, Heidingsfeld – 8 October 1894, Munich) was a German clinician and pharmacologist.
He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Munich, Berlin and Prague, receiving his doctorate in 1865. In 1869 he qualified as a lecturer in pharmacology at Würzburg, where in 1874 he became an associate professor. In 1882 became a full professor of special pathology and therapy and director of the medical clinic at the University of Jena as a successor to Hermann Nothnagel. In 1892 he resigned his professorship at Jena for reasons of health.[1]
His name is associated with "Rossbach's disease", a gastric disorder better known as hyperchlorhydria.[2] [3]
With Nothnagel, he was co-author of "Handbuch der Arzneimittellehre" (from the 3rd edition onward);[4] a textbook that was translated into English with the title "A treatise on materia medica : (including therapeutics and toxicology)". Other noteworthy written efforts by Rossbach are: