Hermann Lebert

Hermann Lebert was a Médecin and a German Naturaliste , born with Breslau the June 9th 1813 and deceased the 1878 with Bex (Suisse).

Its name of birth was Hermann Lewy . He studies medicine and the natural science initially with Berlin then with Zurich where he receives the teaching of Johann Lukas Schönlein. After obtaining its doctorate in medicine in Zurich (1834), he travels through the Suisse, and devotes himself to studies of Botanique. He spends then a year and half to Paris to supplement his medical formation near Guillaume Dupuytren and of Pierre-Charles Alexandre Louis. In 1838, it settles with Bex, in the Canton of Vaud, and thereafter division its activity between this small town and Paris. Of 1842 with 1845, it especially devotes to the Comparative anatomy, a discipline for which its interest had appeared during its voyages of student on the coasts of Normandy and in the Channel Islands in company of Charles Philippe Robin.

On mission of the government, it collects specimens for the Musée Orfila. After a stay in Berlin during the winter 1845-1846 Lebert settles in Paris, where he exerts medicine while continuing his scientific work. In 1853, it accepts the proposal of a clinical post of professor of medicine in Zurich and 6 years later same station with Breslau becomes titular. It takes its retirement in 1874 with Bex, where it spends its last years.

Lebert was among the first to use the microscope in pathological anatomy and contributed by there in a decisive way at the same time to pathology and clinical medicine.

Works

In the field of the natural science, one owes in Lebert an important work on the fauna of the Araignée S of Switzerland, Die Spinnen der Schweiz . He is also the author of a catalog of the acarina (Hydrachnida) of the Lac Léman.

In the medical field its principal publications were the following ones:

pathological Physiology . 2 Volumes and Atlas. Paris, Baillière, 1845.
Über Gehirnabscesse . Archiv für pathologische Anatomy und Physiology und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1856,10:78 - 109, 352-400, 426-468.
Treated general and special pathological anatomy . 2 volumes. Paris, Baillière, 1857 and 1861.
Handbuch DER praktischen Medicin . 2 Volumes. Tübingen, 1855,1856.
Handbuch DER allgemeinen Pathology und Therapy . Tübingen, 1865.
Some experiments on the transmission by inoculation of the tubers . Bulletin of the Academy of medicine, Paris, 1866,32:119 - 151.
Grundzüge DER ärztlichen Praxis . 3 Lieferungen. 1866.
Treated practical of the scrofuleuses diseases and tubercular patients , practical Paris, 1849.
Treated of the cancerous diseases . Paris, 1851.
Klinik der Brustkrankheiten . 2 Volumes. Tübingen, 1874.
Die Krankheiten of Magens . Tübingen, 1878.
Die Krankheiten der Blut- und Lymphgefässe . In: (Rudolf Virchows) Handbuch DER speciellen Pathology und Therapy, Band 5, Teil 2:1 - 152. 1. Aufl., Erlangen 1861 (6 Bände, Erlangen, 1854-1876).

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