ABSTRACT
ERNST LEBERICHT WAGNER was born in Dehlitz, March 12, 1829. He was raised in the home of his uncle, a Saxon country doctor. His medical studies were pursued in Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna, under Wunderlich, Oppolzer, Skoda, and Rokitanski. Finishing his studies, he set up practice in Leipzig, and here this man who was to become the most sought after and authoritative of the Saxon physicians failed miserably. After another try in a small Bohemian border town he returned to Leipzig, turned his interests to the rapidly developing field of histopathology, and gradually achieved greatest success in it. Most noted are his monograph on cancer of the uterus and his investigations on the pathology of fat embolism, phosphorus poisoning, the syphilomas, diphtheria, and lymphadenomata.
