Albert Thierfelder

Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder (12 December 1842 – 22 January 1908) was a German pathologist born in Meissen.

He was the son of city physician (Stadtphysikus) Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder [de] (1799–1867), and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904).

He studied medicine at the University of Rostock and University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom.

[2] In 1884/85 he was chairman of Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Natural History Society of Rostock).

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