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.

[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.

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