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ZENKEK, tsĕn′kẽr, Friedrich Albert von (1825–98). A German physician, celebrated for his discovery of trichiniasis. He was born in Dresden, and was educated in Leipzig and Heidelberg. Attached to the city hospital of Dresden in 1851, he added, in 1855, the duties of professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology in the surgico-medical academy of that city. In 1862 he became professor of pathological anatomy and pharmacology at Erlangen. Three years afterwards he assumed with Ziemssen the editorship of the Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medizin. In 1895 he retired from active service. His important discovery of the danger of trichinæ dates from 1860. In that year he published Üeber die Trichinenkrankheit des Menschen (in vol. xviii. of Virchow's Archiv). This was followed by Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Anatomie der Lunge (1862); Üeber Staubinhalationskrankheiten der Lungen (1866); Die Krankheiten des Oesophagus (in vol. vii. of Ziemssen's Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, 1877).