Henry Leffmann
Henry Leffmann was an American chemist, physician and writer.
Biography
Leffmann born in Philadelphia. He was the fourth son of Henry Leffmann, a German Jew and Sarah Ann Paul of Doylestown a Quaker of Welsh ancestry.In 1864 he became a chemical laboratory assistant at Philadelphia High School. He was assistant to Benjamin H. Rand at Jefferson Medical College. He obtained his M.D. in 1869 from Jefferson Medical College. Leffmann was chemist to the coroner of Philadelphia and district attorney. He was a chemist to dairy and food commissioners of Pennsylvania. He married Fannie Frank in 1876, they had no children.
Leffmann was lecturer on Toxicology at Jefferson College, lecturer on botany at Wagner Free Institute of Science and Professor of Chemistry. He was microscopist of Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, professor of chemistry at Philadelphia Polyclinic and pathological chemist at Jefferson Medical College Hospital. He received an honorary Ph.D from the Wagner Free Institute of Science in 1874 and a DDS from Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery in 1884.
Leffmann supported women's rights and has been cited as an "early male medical pro-feminist". He was professor of chemistry at the Woman's [Medical College of Pennsylvania] and emeritus until 1923. Leffmann was not religious and joined the Society for Ethical Culture.