- Ernst Leberecht Wagner
Ernst Leberecht Wagner (
March 12 ,1829 -February 10 ,1888 ) was a Germanpathologist who was a native ofDehlitz , a town in theBurgenlandkreis district ofSaxony-Anhalt . He studied medicine inLeipzig under Karl August Wunderlich (1815-1877), inPrague underJosef Skoda (1805-1881) and inVienna underKarl von Rokitansky (1804-1878). In 1855 he received his habilitation at theUniversity of Leipzig , where in 1862 he became an associate professor.In 1869 Wagner became a "full professor" of general pathology and
pathological anatomy at the University of Leipzig, and in 1871 founded the first institute of pathology at Leipzig. From 1877 until 1888 he was a professor of pathology and "special therapy" (internal medicine ) at Leipzig. Wagner was considered an excellent teacher, and two of his better known assistants were Adolf von Strümpell (1853-1925) andPaul Flechsig (1847-1929).His best known written work was a textbook on pathology called "Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie", which was co-authored with
Johann Paul Uhle (1827-1861), and published in seven editions and translated into several languages. Wagner made contributions in his research ofuterine cancer andembolism s associated with blood vessels of thelung . WithHeinrich Unverricht (1853-1912), the eponymous "Wagner-Unverricht syndrome" is named, which is a muscle disease related topolymyositis , characterized by chronic muscle inflammation resulting in muscle weakness andskin rash .References
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