Albert Thierfelder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Thierfelder

German pathologist

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1842

Place of Birth: Meissen, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1908

Profession: university teacher, pathologist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder (December 12, 1842 – January 22, 1908) was a German pathologist born in Meissen.
He was the son of Stadtphysikus Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder (1799–1867), and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904). He studied medicine at the University of Rostock and University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom.
He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of anatomic pathology in Rostock.
One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist Otto Lubarsch (1860–1934).In 1884/85 he was chairman of Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Natural History Society of Rostock).He was the author of Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie (Atlas of pathological histology), published in seven parts from 1872 to 1881: 1 Lfg.
"Pathologische Histologie der Luftwege und der Lunge".
1872. 2 Lfg.
"Pathologie Histologie des Verdauungscanals (Mundhöhle, Rachen, Speiseröhre, Magen und Darm)".
1873. 3 Lfg.
"Pathologische Histologie der Leber, des Pankreas und der Speicheldrüsen".
1874. 4 Lfg.
"Pathologishe Histologie der serösen Haüte und Gelenke".
1875. 5 Lfg.
"Pathologische Histologie der Knochen und des Periosts".
1876. 6 and 7 Lfg.
"Pathologische Histologie des Herzens und der Blutgefasse (Myocardium, Endocardium Arterien, Venen und Capillaren)".
1881.