Edmund Lesser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Lesser

German dermatologist

Date of Birth: 12-May-1852

Place of Birth: Nysa, Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1918

Profession: physician, university teacher, dermatologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Edmund Lesser (12 May 1852 – 7 June 1918) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Neisse. He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Bonn and Strasbourg, earning his medical doctorate in 1876.
Later he became an assistant to Oskar Simon (1845–1892) at the dermatological clinic in Breslau, and in 1882 received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig.
In 1892 he was an associate professor at the University of Bonn, and several years later was appointed chief physician of the syphilitic department at the Berlin-Charité (1896).
The following year he became head of the dermatological and syphilitic dispensary at the University of Berlin.