Hermann Edler von Zeissl

Hermann Edler von Zeissl (1817 to 1884) was an Austrian Jewish dermatologist born in a village near Zwittau in Moravia. He took his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna and from 1846 worked as a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals there. He became an associate professor in Vienna in 1861 and in 1869 was appointed professor and chief physician of the second department for syphilis at the General Hospital. He was regarded as an authority on skin diseases and syphilis. His books include a compendium on primary syphilitic and simple venereal diseases (1850), a textbook of constitutional syphilis (1864) and an outline of the pathology and treatment of syphilis that appeared in English translation in 1886.