Edmund Lesser

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Edmund Lesser
Memorial plaque on a Charité building
Edmund Lesser's gravestone in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf

Johann Edmund Anton Lesser , also Johannes Lesser (born May 12, 1852 in Neisse , Silesia, † June 5, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish dermatologist .

Life

His father was the future judge Adolph Lesser . After studying medicine at the universities in Bonn , Berlin and Strasbourg , where he also received his doctorate , he went to further professional training with Ferdinand von Hebra in Vienna, as an internist Hermann Senator at the Berlin Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital and as a dermatologist Oskar Simon in Wroclaw . In 1882 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig .

In 1889 he was appointed associate professor and director of the dermatological clinic in Bern . In 1896 he was appointed associate professor in Berlin and in 1911 the first professor for dermatology in Germany. At the same time he was head of the clinic for skin and venereal diseases at the Charité .

In numerous papers he commented on specific questions relating to skin and venereal diseases, especially syphilis .

He was chairman of the Berlin Dermatological Society and co-editor of the journal Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis , Secretary General and President of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases and from 1891 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1889 he was one of the founders of the German Dermatological Society with Joseph Doutrelepont , Moriz Kaposi , Albert Neisser and Philipp Josef Pick . He carried the title of Privy Medical Councilor .

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . He was married to Luise Poleck (1859-1939).

Fonts

  • About rhizopods and related organisms In: Archive for microscopic anatomy 10 (1874), pp. 35–243. (with Richard Hertwig ).
  • Contributions to the pathology and therapy of hypospadias , Strasbourg 1876 (diss.)
  • On syphilis maligna , SD 1882.
  • Textbook of skin and venereal diseases for students and doctors , 2 volumes, Leipzig 1885/1886; 14th edition Berlin 1926–1930. (revised by Josef Jadassohn ).
  • Traite des affections cutanees et veneriennes , Bruxelles 1891.
  • Tratado de dermatologia, sifiliografia y enfermedades venereas , 2 vols., Barcelona 1901.
  • The public prophylaxis of syphilis , Leipzig 1888. (with Jean Alfred Fournier ).
  • The tower houses of the Middle Ages , Zurich 1896.
  • Encyclopedia of Skin and Venereal Diseases , Leipzig 1900.

literature

  • Otto Winkelmann :  Lesser, Edmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 336 ( digitized version ).
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Vol. 6, Munich 2006, p. 383.
  • Jewish Encyclopedia .
  • Julius Leopold Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the 19th century. Berlin-Vienna 1901 (ND Leipzig 1989) ( online )
  • Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Vol. 1, Berlin-Vienna 1932.
  • A. Neisser, W. Pick: Festschrift - Edmund Lesser dedicated to his 60th birthday in admiration by friends and students , Vienna-Leipzig 1912. (with font index)
  • Erich Hoffmann : Edmund Lesser † , In: Dermatologische Zeitschrift 26 (1918), pp. 65–70.
  • F. Blumenthal, H. Löhe: Edmund Lesser on the 100th birthday. In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift 125 (1952), pp. 457-459.
  • E. Hoffmann: Edmund Lesser as the founder of a large dermatology school. In: Journal of Skin and Venereal Diseases 12 (1952), pp. 400-403.
  • M. Stürzbecher , G. Wagner: The history of Edmund Lesser's appointment to Charité , Kiel 1962.
  • Dietrich von Engelhardt : Biographical Encyclopedia of German-Speaking Medicines, Vol. 1, Munich 2002, p. 370.
  • Klaus Harnack: Edmund Lesser's final resting place. In: Current Dermatology. Volume 31, 2005, pp. 42-45.
  • Albrecht Scholz: Lesser, Johannes Edmund Anton. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 846.

Web links

Commons : Edmund Lesser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Lesser, Edmund - German biography. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Edmund Lesser in Altmeyer's Dermatological Encyclopedia online , accessed on November 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lesser, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lesser, Johann Edmund Anton (full name); Lesser, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1918
Place of death Berlin