Hermann Edler von Zeissl

Hermann Edler von Zeissl.

Hermann Edler von Zeissl (22 September 1817 – 23 September 1884) was a Moravia-born Austrian Jewish dermatologist who was born in the village of Vierzighuben (Czech: Čtyřicet Lánů, Svitavy-Lány[1]), near Zwittau, Moravia.

Zeissl received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and from 1846 worked as a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals at the university. In 1861 he became an associate professor in Vienna, and in 1869 was appointed professor and chief physician of the second department for syphilis at General Hospital Vienna. During his career, he was an authority on skin diseases and syphilis.

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