- Hermann Lebert
Hermann Lebert (born "Hermann Lewy" in
Breslau June 9 ,1813 ; died 1878 inSwitzerland ) was a Germanphysician .He studied medicine and the natural sciences first in
Berlin and later inZurich underJohann Lukas Schönlein . After he received his medical doctorate (Zurich, 1834), he traveled throughout Switzerland, studying botany. For the next year and a half he studied in Paris, particularly underBaron Guillaume Dupuytren andPierre Charles Alexandre Louis . In 1838 he settled inBex , later changing between Bex andParis . From 1842 to 1845 he worked mainly incomparative anatomy , which had interested him during his travels as a student on the coast ofNormandy and theChannel Islands withCharles-Philippe Robin . On a government assignment, he collected specimens forMusée Orfila . After a stay in Berlin during the winter of 1845-1846 Lebert settled in Paris, where he devoted his efforts to both his practice and scientific work. In 1853 he accepted an invitation to become professor of clinical medicine inZurich , and six years later he moved on toBreslau , where he held the same job. In 1874 he returned to Bex, where he spent the rest of his life.Lebert was among the first to use the microscope in pathological anatomy, and thus contributed importantly to both
pathology and clinical medicine.Selected writings
* "Physiologie pathologique". 2 volumes and atlas. Paris, Baillière, 1845. (An early work on pathological
histology that was instrumental in introducing the cellular idea of pathology).
* "Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale". 2 volumes. Paris, Baillière, 1857 and 1861. (Known for its excellent hand-coloured copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology).Source
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/82.h Who Named It?, Hermann Lebert]
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