Adolf Lesser
Adolf Lesser (born May 22, 1851 in Stargard ; † July 6, 1926 in Breslau ) was a German medic.
Life
Lesser was the son of a doctor and studied medicine in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1875 and then worked with Rudolf Virchow at the Institute of Pathology. From 1876 to 1884 he was at the Institute for State Medicines (where he completed his habilitation in 1881) and from 1879 at the Klinsmannsche Asylum in Berlin.
In 1886 he became forensic city physicist in Breslau and also in 1887 extraordinary and in 1921 full professor at the University of Breslau. From 1899 he built the forensic medicine institute there.
In 1889 he was a judicial physician expert in the Max Bernstein case . The Jew Max Bernstein was accused of religiously motivated acts of bodily harm to a boy, whereby Lesser exonerated him and diagnosed Bernstein with a mental illness.
On October 26, 1887 ( registration number 2654 ) he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts
- Atlas of Forensic Medicine , 1883-1894
- Poisonings , 1884
literature
- Entry in German Biographical Encyclopedia , KG Saur
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen W. Schmidt : No case of “ritual blood drawing” - the criminal trials against the rabbinate candidate Max Bernstein in Breslau in 1889/90 and their sexual psychological background. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013 (2014), pp. 483-516, here: pp. 498 f.
- ^ Member entry of Adolf Lesser at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lesser, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stargard |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1926 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |