Theodor Rumpel (surgeon)

Theodor Rumpel was a German surgeon, born on 25 March 1862 in Gütersloh and died on 11 August 1923 in Hamburg. He is remembered for describing the Rumpel-Leede sign, a clinical finding that carries his name together with that of Carl Leede. He received his doctorate in 1887 at Marburg and went on to work at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital. He oversaw the building of the Barmbecker Krankenhaus in Hamburg and became its director in 1913. Among his better known assistants in Hamburg was the bacteriologist Georg Jochmann. With the internist Alfred Kast he co-authored a pathological and anatomical atlas of plates made from fresh specimens, with an explanatory anatomical and clinical text. The source lead does not describe the sign itself or his operative work, so this entry stays with what the lead supports.