Abraham Lissauer

Abraham Lissauer

Abraham Lissauer (born August 29, 1832 in Berent , † September 29, 1908 in Charlottenburg ) was a German doctor and archaeologist of Jewish origin.

Life

Abraham Lissauer attended high schools in Sagan and Danzig . He studied philosophy, philology and medicine in Berlin and Vienna, received his doctorate in 1856 and worked as a doctor in Neidenburg until 1863 . In 1863 Lissauer began his medical practice in Danzig. He made the campaigns in 1866 and 1870/1871 as a medical officer in the field hospital. He was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class with swords and the Iron Cross II class. After 1892 he worked in Berlin as a librarian and curator of the skull collection of the Anthropological Society . Lissauer had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1900 . He was appointed to the secret medical council.

His son was the neurologist Heinrich Lissauer (1861-1891).

Fonts

• De digitalis in pulsum efficacitate in pneumonia . Berlin, 1856
• For the antipyretic treatment of typhus abdominalis (1871) doi: 10.1007 / BF01957192
• About sanitary investigation of the drinking water (1864)
• About the alcohol content of beer (1865)
• Description of a male hermaphrodite sheep . In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig (New Series) Vol. 2, Book 2, 1869
• Sanitary studies of soil absorption (1876)
• About the penetration of canal gases into living spaces (1881)
• Investigations into the sagittal curvature of the skull in anthropoids and the various human races . In: Archives for Anthropology , 15, 1885
• The prehistoric monuments of the province of West Prussia and the adjacent areas . W. Engelmann, 1887
• Antiquities of the Bronze Age in the province of West Prussia and the adjacent areas . Danzig, 1891
• Archaeological and anthropological studies of the Kabyle . In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , 40 (4), 1908, pp. 501-535

literature

• Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin / Vienna 1901, pp. 1017-1018
• Hugo Conwentz : Abraham Lissauer - his life and work . In: Writings of the Natural Research Society in Danzig , 12, 1907/1910, pp. 13–22
• Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. 1909, p. 427
• August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1886
• Who is it The German who's who . 3rd edition. Arani, 1908, p. 826

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Abraham Lissauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.