Theodor Thierfelder

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Theodor Thierfelder (1824-1904)

Benjamin Theodor Thierfelder (10 December 1824 – 7 March 1904) was a German internist born in Meissen. He his remembered for contributions made in research of Fieberkurve (temperature patterns) involving typhoid fever.

In 1848 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where in 1851 he became a member of the medical staff, and an assistant to Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-1877). In 1855 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Rostock, where from 1856 to 1901 he served as a full professor (pathological anatomy until 1866 and internal medicine).^[1]

In 1860 he was named Obermedizinalrat and a member of the "Grand Ducal medical commission".^[2]

He was son-in-law to classical philologist Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1806-1887), and was the brother of pathologist Albert Thierfelder (1842-1908), who also was a professor at the University of Rostock.

References

"Parts of this article are based on a translation of the equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".

↑ Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium (biographical information)
↑ Zeno.org Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon

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Name	Thierfelder, Theodor
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Short description	German physician
Date of birth	10 December 1824
Place of birth	Meissen
Date of death	7 March 1904
Place of death

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