Hermann Lebert

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Hermann Lebert, born Hermann Lewy, was a German doctor and naturalist. He was born on 9 June 1813 in Breslau and died on 1 August 1878 in Switzerland. He studied medicine and natural science in Berlin and Zürich, where he earned his medical degree in 1834. He then traveled in Switzerland to study botany and spent about a year and a half in Paris with famous doctors Dupuytren and Louis. In 1838 he settled in Bex, later dividing his time between Bex and Paris. From 1842 to 1845 he worked on comparative anatomy, after traveling along the Normandy coast and the Channel Islands with Charles-Philippe Robin. He collected specimens for Musée Orfila on a government project. After a winter in Berlin (1845–1846), he stayed in Paris again, combining medical practice with research. In 1853 he became professor of clinical medicine in Zürich, and in 1859 he moved to Breslau to hold the same position. In 1862 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He returned to Bex in 1874 and spent the rest of his life there. Lebert was one of the first to use the microscope in pathological anatomy, helping both pathology and clinical medicine.