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History Rutger Adolf Reddingius Professor of pathology and previous Rector Magnificus, Prof. Dr. Rutger Adolf Reddingius (1857-1923) was appointed in 1913. He lectured to the appreciation of the students and started a dermatological polyclinic in the pathologic anatomy laboratory. As a pre-clinical professor, Reddingius was not supported by the clinical professors who took the dermatology and venereology patients in their wards. Reddingius stood down in 1921, and dermatological education remained untaught in the medical faculty until 1924, when Prof. Johan Willem van der Valk from the Amsterdam school was appointed. Johan Wilhelm van der Valk (1877-1929) was an eloquent clinician and teacher, and devoted his inaugural speech to “Skin diseases and internal medicine”. His dermato-venereological clinic in Groningen opened in 1925 with 26 beds and 12 cradles. By the time he died unexpectedly in 1929, the number of out-patient consultations was 18,962. Venereological diseases were treated for free. Emil Friedrich Zurhelle His successor, appointed in 1931, was the German dermatologist Emil Friedrich Zurhelle (1889-1965). Zurhelle came from the famous Bonn dermatological department of Prof. Erich Hoffmann, who had discovered the Treponema pallidum in 1905, the microbe causing lues. In 1922 the couple reported the nevus lipomatosus superficialis Hoffmann-Zurhelle. Zurhelle was an expert in lues and wrote the chapter on syphilitic infections of the lymphatic system and spleen in Josef Jadassohn’s “Handbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten”. Zurhelle was an experimental scientist following the German tradition prevalent at that time. He was unmarried and devoted his life to dermatology, supervised five theses and oversaw the establishment of a new clinical building in 1939. After the German invasion of 1940, he continued to work with impartiality and evidenced no sympathy for the Nazis. However, in 1945, events took an unfortunate turn for Zurhelle. He was recruited into the Wehrmacht and forced to wear German military uniform. Immediately after the war, he disappeared into Germany. 50 Naevus lipomatosus Hoffmann-Zurhelle. BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:40 Pagina 50