Hermann Edler von Zeissl (September 22, 1817 - September 23, 1884) was a Moravia-born Austrian Jewish dermatologist who was born in the village of Vierzighuben (Czech: Čtyřicet Lánů, Svitavy-Lány^[1]), near Zwittau, Moravia.

Zeissl received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and from 1846 worked as a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals at the university. In 1861 he became an associate professor in Vienna, and in 1869 was appointed professor and chief physician of the second department for syphilis at General Hospital Vienna. During his career, he was an authority on skin diseases and syphilis.

[edit] Written works

• Compendium der Pathologie und Therapie der primär-syphilitium (1850)
• Lehrbuch der Constitutionellen Syphilis für Aerzte und Hörer der Medizin (Erlangen, 1864)
• Lehrbuch der Syphilis und der put dieser verwandten ortlichen venerischen Krankheiten (1875)
• Grundriss der Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis (1876)

[edit] References

• Hermann von Zeissl @ Jewish_Encyclopedia

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