Erich Leschke
Related eponyms
German internist, born October 23, 1887, Beugneustadt, Rheinprovinz; died 1933.
Biography of Erich Leschke
Erich Leschke attended the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in 1911. He worked at the physiological institute and at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stift in Bonn, at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus in Hamburg and the II. medical clinic at the Berlin Charité. He was habilitated for internal medicine at the Charité in 1918, becoming extraordinary professor in 1919.
What is an eponym?
An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus
any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.
What is Whonamedit?
Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person,
with a biography of that person.
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only.
No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically,
therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be
affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
