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Friedrich Albert von Zenker (13 March 1825 – 13 June 1898) was a German
pathologist Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. 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 us ...
and
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, celebrated for his discovery of
trichinosis Trichinosis, also known as trichinellosis, is a parasitic disease caused by roundworms of the '' Trichinella'' type. During the initial infection, invasion of the intestines can result in diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. Migration of ...
. He was born in
Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
, and was educated in
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and
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. While in Leipzig, he worked for a while as an assistant to
Justus Radius Justus Wilhelm Martin Radius (14 November 1797, in Leipzig – 7 March 1884, in Leipzig) was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist. He obtained his medical doctorate in Leipzig in 1821, then furthered his education in Vienna, Berlin, London and ...
at the St. Georg Hospital. Attached to the city hospital of Dresden in 1851, he added, in 1855, the duties of professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology in the surgico-medical academy of that city. In 1862 he became
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of pathological anatomy and
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at
Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ...
. Three years afterwards he assumed with
Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen Hugo (Wilhelm) von Ziemssen (13 December 1829 – 21 January 1902) was a German physician, born in Greifswald. He studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin, and Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to the University of Erlangen ...
the editorship of the "''Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medizin''". In 1895 he retired from active service. Zenker's diverticulum, a false pathological diverticulum of the posterior pharyngeal wall, through the thyropharyngeus and cricopharyngeus parts of the inferior constrictor muscle, is named after him. His important discovery of the danger of trichina dates from 1860. In that year he published "''Ueber die Trichinenkrankheit des Menschen''" (in volume xviii of '' Virchows'' ''Archiv'''')''. In 1865 he was awarded the
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by the
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.


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Zenker's degeneration Zenker's degeneration is a severe glassy or waxy hyaline degeneration or necrosis of skeletal muscles in acute infectious diseases; a prototype of coagulative necrosis. The condition was named by Friedrich Albert von Zenker. It is a hyaline degene ...
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Zenker's diverticulum A Zenker's diverticulum, also pharyngeal pouch, is a diverticulum of the mucosa of the human pharynx, just above the cricopharyngeal muscle (i.e. above the upper sphincter of the esophagus). It is a pseudo diverticulum (not involving all layers of ...
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Zenker's paralysis Peroneal nerve paralysis is a paralysis on common fibular nerve that affects patient’s ability to lift the foot at the ankle. The condition was named after Friedrich Albert von Zenker. Peroneal nerve paralysis usually leads to neuromuscular diso ...


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Physicians from Dresden German pathologists 1825 births 1898 deaths University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty {{Germany-med-bio-stub