Erhard Riecke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German dermatologist and venereologist
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Place of Birth: Aschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Erhard Riecke
- Rudolf Erhard Riecke (11 May 1869, in Aschersleben – 15 November 1939, in Leipzig) was a German dermatologist and venereologist. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1895.
- In 1902 he obtained his habilitation for dermatology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1908 became an associate professor.
- From 1914 onward, he was a professor of dermatology at the University of Göttingen, where in 1932 he was named academic rector.
- In 1917 he was appointed director of the new university policlinic for skin and venereal diseases.He is remembered for his research of ichthyosis congenita, a disease he classified into three types based on severity (ichthyosis congenita gravis, mitis and tarda).
- In 1900 he published Ãœber Ichtyosis congenita regarding the disorder.
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