Oskar Simon
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1845 – 1882
Who was Oskar Simon?
Oskar Simon was a German dermatologist who was a native of Berlin.
He studied medicine in Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1868. He furthered his education in Vienna, where he took classes from Ferdinand von Hebra and Hermann Edler von Zeissl. During the Franco-Prussian War he was an assistant-surgeon, and in 1872 became a lecturer of skin diseases and syphilis in Berlin.
In 1878 he succeeded Heinrich Koebner as professor of dermatology at the University of Breslau, and also became chief physician at Allerheiligen Hospital. Among his students were Albert Neisser, Edmund Lesser and Eduard Arning. Oskar Simon died from carcinoma of the stomach on March 2, 1882 at the age of 37.
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