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[[File:Hermann Zeissl Litho.jpg|thumb|upright|Hermann Edler von Zeissl.]]
'''Hermann Edler von Zeissl''' (22 September 1817 – 23 September 1884) was a [[Moravia]]-born [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[Jewish]] [[dermatologist]] who was born in the village of Vierzighuben ({{langx|cs|[[Čtyřicet Lánů]], Svitavy-Lány}}<ref>[http://www.muzeum.svitavy.cz/stale-exp/historical-circuit-of-town/ctyricet-lanu/188-2/], [http://www.zwittau.de/orte/vierzighuben/vierzighuben.htm]</ref>), near [[Zwittau]], Moravia.

Zeissl received his medical doctorate from the [[University of Vienna]], and from 1846 worked as a medical assistant in the surgical and dermatological hospitals at the university. In 1861 he became an associate professor in [[Vienna]], and in 1869 was appointed professor and chief physician of the second department for [[syphilis]] at [[Vienna General Hospital|General Hospital Vienna]]. During his career, he was an authority on [[skin diseases]] and syphilis.

== Written works ==
* ''Compendium der Pathologie und Therapie der primär-syphilitischen und einfach venerischen Krankheiten'' (Wien, 1850).
* ''Lehrbuch der constitutionellen Syphilis für Aerzte und Hörer der Medicin'' (Erlangen, 1864).
** 2nd edition, revised and enlarged: ''Lehrbuch der Syphilis und der mit dieser verwandten örtlichen venerischen Krankheiten'' (2 volumes, Erlangen 1871/72).
* ''Grundriss der Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis'' (1876) &ndash; translated into English and published in 1886 as: [https://archive.org/details/outlinesofpathol00zeisuoft ''Outlines of the Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis and Allied Venereal Diseases''].

== References ==
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* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=85&letter=Z ''Hermann von Zeissl''] @ [[Jewish_Encyclopedia]]

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