Albert Thierfelder


Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder was a German pathologist born in Meissen. He was the son of city physician, and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder.
He studied medicine at the University of Rostock and University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of anatomic pathology in Rostock. One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist Otto Lubarsch.
In 1884/85 he was chairman of Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.
He was the author of Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie, published in seven parts from 1872 to 1881:
  • 1 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Luftwege und der Lunge". 1872.
  • 2 Lfg. "Pathologie Histologie des Verdauungscanals ". 1873.
  • 3 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Leber, des Pankreas und der Speicheldrüsen". 1874.
  • 4 Lfg. "Pathologishe Histologie der serösen Haüte und Gelenke". 1875.
  • 5 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Knochen und des Periosts". 1876.
  • 6 and 7 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie des Herzens und der Blutgefasse ". 1881.