Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder (12 December 1842 – 22 January 1908) was a German
pathologist born in
Meissen
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. He was the son of
city physician () (1799–1867), and was a younger brother to
internist Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904).
He studied medicine at the
University of Rostock and
University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on
sweat gland
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adenoma
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, ''Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom''. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in
Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of
anatomic pathology in
Rostock.
[Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig]
(biography) One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist
Otto Lubarsch (1860–1934).
In 1884/85 he was chairman of ''Naturforschenden Gesellschaft'' (Natural History Society of Rostock).
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He was the author of ''Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie'' (Atlas of pathological histology), 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
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People from the Kingdom of Saxony
German pathologists
People from Meissen
Academic staff of the University of Rostock
1842 births
1908 deaths
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