Herxheimer
Karl Herxheimer (; 26 June 1861 – 6 December 1942) was a German-Jewish dermatologist who was a native of Wiesbaden. He studied medicine at the universities of University of Freiburg, Freiburg, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, receiving his doctorate in 1885 with a thesis on cerebral syphilis. Following graduation he worked as an assistant to Karl Weigert at the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, Institute of Pathology in Frankfurt am Main, and to Albert Neisser at the university skin clinic in University of Breslau, Breslau.Herxheimer, Karl
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, , S. 727 f. He later worked with his older brother, Salomon Herxheimer (1841–1899) in Frankfurt, where in 1894, he became director of the municipal dermatology clinic. ...
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Andrew Herxheimer
Andrew Herxheimer (4 November 1925 – 21 February 2016) was a German-born British clinical pharmacologist. He was "interested in all aspects of providing independent, unbiased, clear and concise information about therapeutic interventions to professionals and the public, and ada long experience of observing the pharmaceutical industry at work". He is known for founding Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, to better educate medical providers on prescription drugs. After retiring from his academic career at London Hospital and Charing Cross in 1991, he continued his career as a consultant for the Cochrane Collaboration with a focus on adverse drug effects, and as an internationalist in patient advocacy and consumer advocacy. Early life and education Andrew Herxheimer was born in Berlin, Germany to Ilse (née Koenig) and Herbert Herxheimer into a secular Jewish family. He fled with his mother and sister Eva in 1938 to join his father in London. His father, a chest physician by traini ...
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