Theodor Thierfelder

Benjamin Theodor Thierfelder (10 December 1824 – 7 March 1904) was a German internist born in Meissen. He is remembered for contributions made in research of Fieberkurve (temperature patterns) involving typhoid fever.

Theodor Thierfelder (1824-1904)

In 1848 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where in 1851 he became a member of the medical staff, and an assistant to Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-1877). In 1855 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Rostock, where from 1856 to 1901 he served as a full professor (pathological anatomy until 1866 and internal medicine).[1]

In 1860 he was named Obermedizinalrat and a member of the "Grand Ducal medical commission".[2]

He was son-in-law to classical philologist Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1806-1887), and was the brother of pathologist Albert Thierfelder (1842-1908), who also was a professor at the University of Rostock.

Literature
  • Grewolls, Grete (2011). Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Das Personenlexikon (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag. p. 10069. ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6.

References
  • "Parts of this article are based on a translation of the equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
  1. Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium (biographical information)
  2. Zeno.org Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon


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