Leo Buerger (English /bɜːrɡər/; German pronunciation: [/byːɐ̯gəɐ̯/]) (Vienna, September 13, 1879 – New York, October 6, 1943) was an Austrian American pathologist, surgeon and urologist.
Buerger was born in Vienna into a Jewish family, who immigrated to the United States when he was seven (either in 1886 or 1887).
in 1897, followed by studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical school of Columbia University, where he obtained both his M.A.
For nearly 60 years, it remained the workhorse of the American urology[3] It was the leading cystoscope in the U.S. until the advent of fiberoptic illumination with modern lens systems in the 1970s.
[5] In 1917 he received a professorship at the Medical Urology Outpatient Clinic New York, which he held until 1930.
[8] He also worked in the field of bacteriology, including contributions to differentiate streptococci and pneumococci.
[10] Buerger died at his residence at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan after a two-week illness.