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Rumanian oculist; born in 1840 at Jassy; died at Florence March 4, 1895. He was educated at the gymnasium at Ratibor and at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1865). After a postgraduate course under Graefe, Landesberg went to America, where he practised in New York and Philadelphia. In 1894 he removed to Florence, Italy. He wrote: "Beiträge zur Variokösen Ophthalmie," 1874; "Zur Statistik der Linsenkrankheiten," 1876; "On the Etiology and Prophylaxis of Blindness," 1878.