Adolf Weil (physician)

Adolf Weil ( born February 7, 1848 in Heidelberg, † July 23, 1916 in Wiesbaden ) was a German physician.

Life and work

Because studied at Heidelberg University and received his doctorate in 1871. Subsequently he went to Berlin and became an assistant to Friedrich Theodor Frerichs, where he also completed his habilitation. In 1886 he was appointed professor at the University of Dorpat, but had only a year later abandon the teaching due to illness. In 1893 he moved to Wiesbaden, where he later died.

He isolated the first to the norleucine, describing the authority referred to him as Weilsche disease severe form of leptospirosis.

• Physician ( 20th century )
• Physician (19th century)
• University teachers (University of Tartu)
• German
• Born in 1848
• Died in 1916
• Man