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Adolf Lesser (22 May 1851 – 1926) was a German physician who specialized in
forensic medicine Forensic medicine is a broad term used to describe a group of medical specialties which deal with the examination and diagnosis of individuals who have been injured by or who have died because of external or unnatural causes such as poisoning, assa ...
. He was born in the city of
Stargard Stargard (; 1945: ''Starogród'', 1950–2016: ''Stargard Szczeciński''; formerly German: ''Stargard in Pommern'', or ''Stargard an der Ihna''; csb, Stôrgard) is a city in northwestern Poland, located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. In 20 ...
, West Prussia. Lesser studied medicine at the
University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (german: link=no, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick Will ...
, and from 1877 to 1884 was an assistant at the institute of
pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemi ...
in
Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...
. In 1886, he was appointed city physician () in Breslau, and during the following year became an associate professor at the
University of Breslau A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...
. He remained at Breslau until his retirement in 1921. He was the author of numerous articles in medical journals, his best known written work being the 1892 (Atlas of Forensic Medicine).


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Jewish Encyclopedia, Biography
German pathologists Forensic pathologists University of Breslau faculty 1851 births 1926 deaths People from Starogard Gdański People from the Province of Prussia {{Germany-med-bio-stub