Oskar Simon
Oskar Simon ( born January 2, 1845 in Berlin, † March 2, 1882 in Breslau) was a German dermatologist.
Life
Simon grew up as the son of a bookseller, who died in 1856, in Berlin, where he also completed his medical studies after attending high school. Upon graduation and doctorate (theme: " The self- expression of the fruit " ) made in 1868 from his year of military service and took 1870/71 in the German - French war as a doctor part.
Simon from 1871 to 1873 lived in Vienna, where he received as a specialist with Ferdinand von Hebra, the founder of modern dermatology, his education. Following this, he returned to Berlin, where he "On the localization of skin diseases " habilitated with a work as Assistant Professor.
In 1876 he married a cousin from Hamburg, and in the same year, his stomach ailment, it was noticeable that was probably tuberculous origin and led to his early death.
1878 Simon was appointed to Wroclaw as vacancy representation to the Chair of Dermatology and Syphilis of the University in Wroclaw and at the same time entrusted with the development and the establishment of a Department of Dermatology and Syphilis in All Saints. His assistant was there Albert Neisser.
In the summer of 1881 he stayed for health reasons England, where he was elected to the established by Lucius Duncan Bulkley Commission on the revision of the classification and nomenclature of dermatoses. A death in the family of a woman made the necessary return to Germany. Back in Wroclaw deteriorated Simons health; he still held until November 29, his lectures, after which he became bedridden. An apparent improvement in his suffering after his 37th birthday was not to last, and Simon died in early March 1882. He was buried in Berlin on the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery.