Ernst Leberecht Wagner
Ernst Leberecht Wagner ( born March 12, 1829 in Dehlitz / Saale, † February 10, 1888 in Leipzig ) was a German pathologist and physician.
Life
Wagner studied medicine in Leipzig with Karl August Wunderlich, in Prague with Josef Škoda and in Vienna with Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky. After graduating, he settled as a general practitioner in Leipzig. In 1855 he qualified as a professor in Leipzig. After his habilitation in 1855 he became associate professor in 1860 and in 1862 full professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy at the University of Leipzig.
Characterized by Rokitansky and Skoda, the founder of the Second Viennese School, Wagner turned to the pathological anatomy and was very keen for the establishment of a pathological institute in Leipzig.
As of 1862 gave Wagner together with Paul Uhle ( 1827-1861 ) the "Manual of General Pathology " out, which quickly became a standard work and appeared in seven editions. In the same year he was appointed associate professor of general pathology and director of the ambulatory clinic in Leipzig, but initially equipped only with very modest means. The sections were held in Jacob hospital.
After 1865 Wagner had already been on the list of candidates of the University of Heidelberg for the occupation of the newly created Department of Pathological Anatomy, University of Leipzig called him then in 1869 for their first full professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy. It must therefore be regarded as the founder of the Institute of Pathology of the University of Leipzig. After Berlin, Würzburg, Munich and Göttingen, Leipzig was one of the first German universities with an independent Institute of Pathology.
Through numerous publications, Wagner has made a name as a researcher in the following years. Particularly worth mentioning is edited by him, " Archives of healing ." Even as a teacher, he was very popular. Were from the large crowd of his disciples his later colleague Felix Victor Birch - Hirschfeld, from 1885 itself professor of pathology in Leipzig, Paul Flechsig and, from 1884 to 1921 professor of psychiatry and 1894/95 Rector of the University of Leipzig, and the " father of modern cesarean section "Max singer (1853-1903), later professor of gynecology in Prague, mentioned.
After the death of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in 1877 Wagner took over the management of the medical clinic, which he headed until his death.
Services
Its special scientific achievements included the discovery of fat embolism in the pulmonary vessels, in addition he made with various histological investigations and evidence a name. Great, who did much to promote the scientific aspirations of Leipzig doctors as Chairman of the Medical Association and the Leipzig medical service. In addition, he edited the " Archive for Healing" from 1860 to 1878.
Publications (selection)
- The uterine cancer, Leipzig 1858
- Manual of general pathology, together with a couple Paul Uhle, Leipzig, 1862, 7th edition 1876
- Posts in Ziemsens "Handbook of special pathology and therapy," etc.