Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn

Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (14 February 1845 – 1904) was a German-Swiss pathologist born in Germersheim. His eponyms include Zahn infarct and lines of Zahn.[1]

He studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg under Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910), becoming an associate professor of pathological anatomy in Geneva in 1876.

He published works on the circulatory system (blood, thrombosis, embolism, arterial disease, etc.) and on tumors.[2] With Georg Albert Lücke (1829-1894), he published an influential treatise involving surgery of tumors, Chirurgie der Geschwülste. Other noted writings by Zahn include:

References

  1. Stegman, JK, ed. (2006), Stedman's Medical Dictionary (28th ed.), Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins
  2. Biographical Dictionary of the outstanding physicians of all times and peoples ... edited by August Hirsch, Albrecht Wernich, Ernst Julius Gurlt
  3. WorldCat Identities (publications)
Bibliography
  • Benaroyo L (1991), "Contribution of Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904) to the study of inflammation", Gesnerus (in French) 49 (Pt 3–4): 395–408, PMID 1814785
  • Bräunig G, Doerr W (1991), "100 years ago: Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn defines once and for all the separated thrombus", Der Pathologe (in German) 12 (4): 226–229, PMID 1946227
  • Reuter P (2007), "Part I", Springer Klinisches Wörterbuch (in German), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 2005–2038, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-34602-9, ISBN 978-3-540-34601-2
  • Ober WB (1978), "Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn, M.D. (1845–1904): what's my line?", Pathology Annual 13 (Pt 2): 165–173, PMID 372903