Ernst Leberecht Wagner (12 March 1829 – 10 February 1888) was a German
pathologist
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who was a native of
Dehlitz
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Lützen () is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Geo ...
, a town in the
Burgenlandkreis
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History
The district was established as Landkreis Burgenland by the merger of the former Burgenlandkreis and Landkreis Weißenfels as part of the reform of 2007. ...
district of
Saxony-Anhalt
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and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...
.
Education and career
He studied medicine in
Leipzig
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under
Karl August Wunderlich (1815–1877), in
Prague
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under
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(1805–1881) and in
Vienna
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under
Karl von Rokitansky
Baron Carl von Rokitansky (, ; 19 February 1804 – 23 July 1878) was a Czech-born Austrian physician, pathologist, humanist philosopher and liberal politician, founder of the Viennese School of Medicine of the 19th century. He was the founder ...
(1804–1878). In 1855 he received his habilitation at the
University of Leipzig
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, where in 1862 he became an associate professor.
In 1869 Wagner became a "full professor" of general pathology and
pathological anatomy
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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
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) at Leipzig. Wagner was considered an excellent teacher, and two of his better known assistants were
Adolf von Strümpell
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(1853–1925) and
Paul Flechsig
Paul Emil Flechsig (29 June 1847, Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony – 22 July 1929, Leipzig) was a German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is mainly remembered today for his research of myelinogenesis.
Biography
Born in Zwickau, ...
(1847–1929).
His best written effort 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 of
uterine cancer
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and
embolism
An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas (air embolism, gas embolism), amniotic ...
s associated with blood vessels of the
lung
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. With
Heinrich Unverricht
Heinrich Unverricht (18 September 1853 – 22 April 1912) was a German internist who was a native of Breslau.
Education and Medical career
In 1877 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Michael Ant ...
(1853–1912), the eponymous "Wagner-Unverricht syndrome" is named, which is a muscle disease related to
polymyositis
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, characterized by chronic muscle inflammation that results in muscle weakness and
skin rash
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A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked ...
.
References
''Ernst Leberecht Wagner''@
Who Named It
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Hochschulmedizin Leipzig: Fakultät-Dokumentation(translated from German)
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1829 births
1888 deaths
People from Lützen
People from the Province of Saxony
German pathologists
Academic staff of Leipzig University