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 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1895. In 1902, he obtained his habilitation for dermatology at Leipzig University, 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 Über Ichtyosis congenita regarding the disorder. Creeping disease (with Johann Heinrich Rille) In: Handbuch der Hautkrankheiten, volume 4, 2, 1909 – The creeping disease.