Leon Asher

Leon Asher (born April 13, 1865 in Leipzig , † August 8, 1943 in Bern ) was a German physiologist .

Life

Asher was born in Leipzig in 1865 as the son of the Jewish philologist and Schopenhauer student David Asher . He studied at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . He studied 1885-1890 medicine at Carl Ludwig at the University of Leipzig and earned a doctorate to Dr. med.

In 1891 he became an assistant to Wilhelm Kühne and Georg Hermann Quincke at the Heidelberg University Hospital . In 1894 he became an assistant to Hugo Kronecker at the Physiological Institute in Bern and completed his habilitation there. In 1895 he became a private lecturer in physiology at the University of Bern . From 1896 to 1898 he spent his summer holidays in Ewald Hering's laboratory in Leipzig. In 1901 he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Bern and in 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Works

• Practical exercises in physiology: an appendix f. Students . Berlin: Springer, 1916.
• The irregularity of the heartbeat. Bern: Haupt, 1920.
• Textbook of general physiology (with the assistance of L. Asher) ... [et al.]. Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1931.
• Internal Secretion Physiology . Leipzig [u. a.]: Deuticke, 1936.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 73.