Theodor Ackermann

Theodor Ackermann (1825-1896) was a German pathologist, born in Wismar. He took his medical doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1852 and qualified as a university lecturer there in 1856 with a treatise on the physiological effects of emetics. He became an associate professor in 1859, declined a professorship of internal medicine at Dorpat, and in 1865 took the chair at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy and Experimental Pathology at Rostock. In 1873 he became director of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Halle, where he served as rector in 1884 and 1885, and he resigned for health reasons in 1895. His writings include a book on the 1859 cholera epidemic in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and papers on liver cirrhosis, sarcomas and the pathology of the skull.