von Recklinghausen's disease = neurofibromatosis type I 

autosomal disorder
cafe-au-lait macules and fibromata
tumours of nerve trunks
fibrous lesions of bone

Nationality:

German pathologist
Born in Gutersloh, Westphalia, Germany

Undergraudate:

Medical education in Bonn, Wurzburg and Berlin
Qualified in 1855

Postgraduate:

Junior pathologist to Professor Rudolf Virchow, Pathological Institue, Berlin
Rector of the University of Strasbourg, Alsace

von Recklinghausen FD (1882) Uber die multiplen fibromen der Haut und ihre Beziehung zu den mulitplen Neuromen. (On multiple fibromas of the skin and their relationship to multiple neruomas). A. Hirschwald, Berlin.