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Type of entity
Person
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Asher, Leon
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Description area
Dates of existence
1865-1943
History
Dr. Leon Asher was born on April 13, 1865, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
He was a Swiss physiologist, educator, and editor. He was a medicine professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the director of its Institute of Physiology (since 1914). He edited the German journal Ergebnisse der Physiologie. He wrote numerous articles for various medical journals and lectured at the international medical conferences.
He was married to Else Laquer (1873-1958). He died in 1943 in Bern, Switzerland.