Abraham Lissauer was a German physician and archaeologist who was born in Berent, West Prussia

West Prussia

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 (today- Kościerzyna

Koscierzyna

Kościerzyna is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with some 24,000 inhabitants. It has been the capital of Kościerzyna County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998...

, Poland). He was the father of neurologist

Neurologist

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 Heinrich Lissauer

Heinrich Lissauer

Heinrich Lissauer was a German neurologist who was born in Neidenburg . He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. He was a neurologist at the psychiatric hospital in Breslau, and was a one-time assistant to Carl Wernicke...

 (1861-1891).

He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna

University of Vienna

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, gaining his medical doctorate in 1856. From 1856 to 1863 he practiced medicine in Lautenburg

Lidzbark

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 and Neidenburg, and afterwards was a physician in Danzig. During his spare time he performed research in the fields of anthropology

Anthropology

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, ethnography

Ethnography

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 and archaeology.

In 1892 he relocated to Berlin, where he dedicated his time entirely to scientific research. Here he became custodian and librarian

Librarian

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of the Anthropological Society of Berlin. Among his publications are works on archaeology as well as medicine:

• Zur Antipyretischen Behandlung des Typhus Abdominalis, in Virchow's Archiv, liii.
• Ueber den Alkoholgehalt des Bieres, 1865
• Ueber das Eindringen von Canalgasen in die Wohnräume, 1881
• Untersuchungen über die Sagittale Krümmung des Schädels, 1885
• Die Prähistorischen Denkmäler der Provinz West-Preussen, (Antiquities of the Bronze Age in the Province of West Prussia), 1887
• Altertümer der Bronzezeit in der Provinz West-Preussen (Prehistoric Monuments in the Province of West Prussia), 1891