Lahmann, Heinrich (Neue Deutsche Biographie 13, 1982)
secondary literature · 1982
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SUMMARY
Scholarly biographical-dictionary entry, byline 'Rudolf Wilhelm, Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982)', fetched 2026-07-08. Gives: born 30 March 1860 in Bremen; died 1 June 1905; two years studying civil engineering in Hannover before switching to medicine (Greifswald, Munich, Leipzig, Heidelberg), approbation and doctorate from Heidelberg; brief practice in Stuttgart, then directed a sanatorium in Chemnitz; relocated to Dresden in 1887 and founded the sanatorium at Weisser Hirsch; developed the 'Dr. Lahmann-Unterkleidung', a purely cotton, large-mesh reform underwear; selected publications with years: Natürliche Heilweise (1890), Die diätetische Blutentmischung als Grundursache der Krankheiten (1891), Die Reform der Kleidung (1898, 4th ed. 1903).
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The Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) is a peer-reviewed German biographical dictionary comparable in standing to the Dictionary of National Biography. Cited for career facts, the founding of the sanatorium, and the reform-underwear product line; life dates are cross-checked against the GND authority record (gnd-heinrich-lahmann).