Researching Edmund Lesser
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 121 people with the Lesser surname? In that year Lesser was ranked number 3458 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Edmund Lesser on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edmund Lesser and the Lesser Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 208 people with the Lesser surname in the UK? Lesser is now ranked number 3847 for popularity in the UK. |
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Edmund Lesser
right|thumb|Edmund LesserEdmund Lesser (12 May 1852 – 7 June 1918) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Neisse.
He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Bonn and Strasbourg, earning his medical doctorate in 1876. Later he became an assistant to Oskar Simon (1845–1892) at the dermatological clinic in Breslau, and in 1882 received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. In 1892 he was an associate professor at the University of Bonn, and several years later was appointed chief physician of the syphilitic department at the Berlin-Charité (1896). The following year he became head of the dermatological and syphilitic dispensary at the University of Berlin.
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