Samuel Jessner

Samuel Jessner (born January 5, 1859 in Königsberg in Prussia ; † December 7, 1929 in Königsberg) was a German dermatologist and sex researcher.

Jessner studied medicine at the University of Königsberg . After completing his doctorate , he also completed his habilitation there. He mainly dealt with skin and sexually transmitted diseases. He was chairman of the Königsberg branch of the free religious German Society for Ethical Culture . His sons were the dermatologist Max Jessner and the theater director and director Fritz Jessner .

Works (selection)

• Ointments and pastes with special consideration of Mitin: Anh .: recipe formulas , Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1905 ( digital copy )
• Skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris etc.) including tuberculids and lupus erythematosus , 1909.
• The practical importance of salvarsan for syphilis therapy , Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1911 ( digitized version )
• Blemishes and their treatment , 1910, 6th edition: 1923.
• The Skin Diseases of Young Children , 1903, 4th edition: 1923.
• Diagnosis and therapy of eczema , 1905, 3rd edition: 1926.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition, Volume 5, Saur, Munich 2006, p. 345.
• Volkmar Sigusch and Günter Grau (eds.): Personal Lexikon der Sexualforschung , Frankfurt / M.– New York: Campus Verlag 2009, pp. 321–324, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Samuel Jessner in the catalog of the German National Library