Ernst Leberecht Wagner was a German pathologist who was a native of Dehlitz

Dehlitz

Dehlitz is a village and a former municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Lützen....

, a town in the Burgenlandkreis

Burgenlandkreis

The Burgenlandkreis was a district in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are Merseburg-Querfurt, Weißenfels, Leipziger Land, Aschersleben-Staßfurt, Altenburger Land, Greiz, district-free Gera, Saale-Holzland, Weimarer Land, Sömmerda and the Kyffhäuserkreis.- History :The...

 district of Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...

. He studied medicine in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 under Karl August Wunderlich

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich was a German physician, pioneer psychiatrist, and medical professor...

 (1815-1877), in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 under Josef Skoda

Josef Škoda

Joseph Škoda was a Czech physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna.-Life:...

 (1805-1881) and in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 under Karl von Rokitansky (1804-1878). In 1855 he received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, where in 1862 he became an associate professor.

In 1869 Wagner became a "full professor" of general pathology and pathological anatomy at the University of Leipzig, and in 1871 founded the first institute of pathology at Leipzig. From 1877 until 1888 he was a professor of pathology and "special therapy" (internal medicine

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

) at Leipzig. Wagner was considered an excellent teacher, and two of his better known assistants were Adolf von Strümpell

Adolph Strümpell

Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell was a German neurologist who was born at Neu-Autz Estate, Courland Governorate...

 (1853-1925) and Paul Flechsig

Paul Flechsig

Paul Emil Flechsig was a German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is mainly remembered today for his research of myelinogenesis.-Biography:...

 (1847-1929).

His best known written work was a textbook on pathology called Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie, which was co-authored with Johann Paul Uhle

Johann Paul Uhle

Johann Paul Uhle was a German physician and pathologist who was born in Nossen, Saxony. He died of tuberculosis in Jena at the age of 34....

 (1827-1861), and published in seven editions and translated into several languages. Wagner made contributions in his research of uterine cancer

Uterine cancer

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 and embolism

Embolism

In medicine, an embolism is the event of lodging of an embolus into a narrow capillary vessel of an arterial bed which causes a blockage in a distant part of the body.Embolization is...

s associated with blood vessels of the lung

Lung

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. With Heinrich Unverricht

Heinrich Unverricht

Heinrich Unverricht was a German internist who was a native of Breslau. In 1877 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Michael Anton Biermer...

 (1853-1912), the eponymous "Wagner-Unverricht syndrome" is named, which is a muscle disease related to polymyositis

Polymyositis

Polymyositis is a type of chronic inflammation of the muscles related to dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis.-Signs and symptoms:...

, characterized by chronic muscle inflammation resulting in muscle weakness and skin rash.