Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder (12 December 1842 – 22 January 1908) was a German

pathologist Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatme ...

born in

Meissen Meissen ( ), is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden and 75 km (46 mi) west of Bautzen on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, th ...

. He was the son of

city physician City physician (German language, German: ; , , from Latin ) was a historical title in the Late Middle Ages for a physician appointed by the city council. The city physician was responsible for the health of the population, particularly the poor, ...

() (1799–1867), and was a younger brother to

internist Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of th ...

Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904). He studied medicine at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

and

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on

sweat gland Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, , are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland, which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial s ...

adenoma An adenoma is a benign tumor of epithelium, epithelial tissue with glandular origin, glandular characteristics, or both. Adenomas can grow from many glandular organ (anatomy), organs, including the adrenal glands, pituitary gland, thyroid, prosta ...

, ''Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom''. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of

anatomic pathology Anatomical pathology (''Commonwealth'') or anatomic pathology (''U.S.'') is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the macroscopic, microscopic, biochemical, immunologic and molecular examination ...

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

.Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
(biography) One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist

Otto Lubarsch Otto Lubarsch (4 January 1860 – 1 April 1933) was a German pathologist and academic who was a native of Berlin. Among other contributions to medical knowledge, Lubarsch provided the first detailed description of carcinoid tumors. Academic ...

(1860–1934). In 1884/85 he was chairman of ''Naturforschenden Gesellschaft'' (Natural History Society of Rostock). He was the author of ''Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie'' (Atlas of pathological

histology Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissue (biology), tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at large ...

), published in seven parts from 1872 to 1881: * 1 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Luftwege und der Lunge". 1872. * 2 Lfg. "Pathologie Histologie des Verdauungscanals (Mundhöhle, Rachen, Speiseröhre, Magen und Darm)". 1873. * 3 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Leber, des Pankreas und der Speicheldrüsen". 1874. * 4 Lfg. "Pathologishe Histologie der serösen Haüte und Gelenke". 1875. * 5 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Knochen und des Periosts". 1876. * 6 and 7 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie des Herzens und der Blutgefasse (Myocardium, Endocardium Arterien, Venen und Capillaren)". 1881.WorldCat Title
Des Atlas der pathologischen Histologie

References

Pathology in Rostock by Horst Nizze * [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/metadata/cpr_professor_000000000434&ei=Og8gSsbMGZPAM_ONrbQJ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Albert%2BThierfelder%2522%2B1842%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium] (biographical information) People from the Kingdom of Saxony German pathologists People from Meissen Academic staff of the University of Rostock 1842 births 1908 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub