O. E. H. Wucherer

Otto Edward Henry Wucherer (7 July 1820 – 7 May 1873) was a Brazilian physician and naturalist, born to a Dutch mother and German father.

He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1841 as a pupil of Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin.

In 1843 he relocated to Brazil, eventually settling as a doctor in Salvador, Bahia, where he lived until 1871.

[2] Together with John Ligertwood Paterson and José Francisco da Silva Lima, he co-founded the Escola Tropicalista da Bahia (Bahia School of Tropical Medicine).

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