Hermann Eichhorst

Hermann Eichhorst ( March 3, 1849 in Königsberg ( Prussia); † July 26, 1921 in Zurich ) was a physician.

The son of the firm director Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Eichhorst (1814-1873), he studied at the University of Königsberg with Ernst von Leyden and Bernhard Naunyn and became assistant to Friedrich Theodor Frerichs in Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1873.

In 1876 he was appointed as associate professor of skin and teething to Jena and the following year at the Medical Polyclinic in Göttingen.

From 1884 he was professor and director at the medical clinic in Zurich.

Publications

  • Handbook of special pathology and therapy; 1883
  • Textbook of practical medicine internal diseases; 1899
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