Edmund Leser
Edmund Leser was a German surgeon remembered for describing the Leser-Trélat sign.
He studied law in Berlin and served in the Franco-Prussian War as an artillery officer before studying medicine in Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1880, and worked as Richard von Volkmann's assistant in Halle. He qualified as a surgeon in 1884, and became a professor in 1894, practising in Halle and Frankfurt.
He was the author of Lehrbuch der speciellen Chirurgie in 50 Vorlesungen, published in several editions.
