About Adolf Lesser
Lived 1851 – 1926 (aged 74–75). Adolf Lesser was a Polish physician and pathologist.
Adolf Lesser (22 May 1851 – 6 July 1926) was a German physician who specialized in forensic medicine. He was born in the city of Stargard, West Prussia.
Lesser studied medicine at the University of Berlin, and from 1877 to 1884 was an assistant at the institute of pharmacology in Berlin. In 1886, he was appointed city physician in Breslau, and during the following year became an associate professor at the University of Breslau. He remained at Breslau until his retirement in 1921.
He was the author of numerous articles in medical journals, his best known written work being the 1892 (Atlas of Forensic Medicine).
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Who was Adolf Lesser?
German physician (1851–1926)
When was Adolf Lesser born?
Adolf Lesser was born on 22 May 1851 in Stargard.
When did Adolf Lesser die?
Adolf Lesser died in 1926 in Wrocław.
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Adolf Lesser was a physician and pathologist.
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Adolf Lesser was Polish.
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