Friedrich Albert von Zenker (
1825 -
1898) was a
German pathologist and physician, celebrated for his discovery of
trichinosis. He was born in
Dresden, and was educated in
Leipzig and
Heidelberg. Attached to the city hospital of Dresden in 1851, he added, in 1855, the duties of professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology in the surgico-medical academy of that city. In 1862 he became
professor of pathological anatomy and
pharmacology at
Erlangen. Three years afterwards he assumed with
Ziemssen the editorship of the Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medizin. In 1895 he retired from active service. His important discovery of the danger of trichine dates from 1860. In that year he published "Ueber die Trichinenkrankheit des Menschen" (in volume xviii of
Virchow's Archiv).
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