Hermann Lebert (born ''Hermann Lewy'', 9 June 1813 – 1 August 1878) was a German physician and naturalist. Lebert was born in Breslau. He studied medicine and the natural sciences first in Berlin and later in

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Johann Lukas Schönlein Johann Lukas Schönlein (30 November 1793 – 23 January 1864) was a German naturalist, and professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was ...

. After he received his medical doctorate (Zurich, 1834), he traveled throughout Switzerland, studying botany. For the next year and a half he studied in Paris, particularly under

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. In 1838 he settled in

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, later changing between Bex and Paris. From 1842 to 1845 he worked mainly in

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, which had interested him during his travels as a student on the coast of

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Charles-Philippe Robin Charles-Philippe Robin (4 June 1821 – 6 October 1885) was a French anatomist, biologist, and histologist born in Jasseron, département Ain. He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert ...

. On a government assignment, he collected specimens for Musée Orfila. After a stay in Berlin during the winter of 1845–1846 Lebert settled in Paris, where he devoted his efforts to both his practice and scientific work. In 1853 he accepted an invitation to become professor of clinical medicine in

, and six years later he moved on to Breslau, where he held the same job. In 1862, he was elected as a member to the

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. In 1874 he returned to

, Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life. Lebert was among the first to use the microscope in pathological anatomy, and thus contributed importantly to both

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and clinical medicine.

Selected writings

* ''Physiologie pathologique''. 2 volumes and atlas. Paris, Baillière, 1845. (An early work on pathological

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that was instrumental in introducing the cellular idea of pathology). * ''Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale''. 2 volumes. Paris, Baillière, 1857 and 1861. (Known for its excellent hand-coloured copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology).

References

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lebert, Hermann 19th-century German physicians German pathologists German arachnologists 1813 births 1878 deaths University of Breslau faculty University of Zurich faculty University of Zurich alumni Physicians from Wrocław 19th-century Swiss physicians