Theodor Thierfelder
Academic
1824 – 1904
Who was Theodor Thierfelder?
Benjamin Theodor Thierfelder was a German internist born in Meissen. He his remembered for contributions made in research of Fieberkurve involving typhoid fever.
In 1848 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where in 1851 he became a member of the medical staff, and an assistant to Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich. In 1855 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Rostock, where from 1856 to 1901 he served as a full professor.
In 1860 he was named Obermedizinalrat and a member of the "Grand Ducal medical commission".
He was son-in-law to classical philologist Franz Volkmar Fritzsche, and was the brother of pathologist Albert Thierfelder, who also was a professor at the University of Rostock.
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