title: Hermann Lebert (1813-1878): a pioneer of diagnostic pathology.
abstract: Hermann Lebert (1813-1879) was a pioneer of diagnostic pathology and medical iconography. He was born in Breslau, then Prussia, and died in Nice (France). He lived in Switzerland as a general physician, in France as a pathologist, and eventually became the chairman for internal medicine in Zurich and Breslau, respectively. The significance of Hermann Lebert for medical posterity has three aspects: firstly, scientific linking of the French (Parisian) school and its distinctive clinical/practical orientation to the later clinical/pathological German school of Johann Lukas Schönlein, Johannes Müller, and Rudolf Virchow; secondly, his pioneering of the diagnostic use of the microscope in pathological anatomy; and finally, his remarkable book, Traité d'anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale, which has almost fallen into oblivion, being unknown to most contemporary workers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 14, A-8036, Graz, Austria. ulli.pickel@aon.at
authors.forename: Hellmuth
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pickel
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Reich
authors.forename: Raimund
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010336:Pathology; D011044:Poland
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