Adam Kaspar Hesselbach

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Adam Kaspar Hesselbach (born January 15, 1788 in Würzburg , † May 6, 1856 ) was a German anatomist and surgeon .

Life

As the son of Franz Kaspar Hesselbach , Hesselbach studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1806 he became active in the Corps Franconia Würzburg . In 1818 he was promoted to Dr. phil. et med. PhD. As a professor of surgery, he was transferred to the surgical school in Bamberg in 1828 and at the same time appointed chief surgeon of the general hospital there. In 1833 the surgical school was closed. From 1836 he taught at the newly founded Baderschule in Bamberg, which was also closed in 1843.

Hesselbach was considered an "imaginary and incompatible character"; however, he is a "very well disposed man" who has achieved a lot in the field of anatomy and surgery. It dealt mainly with the hernia and invented the truss .

Honors

Fonts

  • Description of the human eye , 1820
  • Description of the pathological specimens that are kept in the royal anatomical institution in Würzburg , 1824
  • The safest type of abdominal incision in the groin , 1819
  • The doctrine of the viscera , 1829/30.
  • Manual of surgical pathology and therapy for general practitioners and surgeons . Jena 1844.

literature

  • Ernst Gurlt:  Hesselbach, Adam Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 311 f.
  • Helmut Lermann: The Hesselbach Prosectors. Franz Caspar Hesselbach and Adam Kaspar Hesselbach as prosectors of the Würzburg Anatomical Institute . Dissertation Univ. Wuerzburg 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 202/22.
  2. ^ Dissertation: Report from the Royal Anatomical Institute in Würzburg
  3. ↑ a b GoogleBooks
personal data
SURNAME Hesselbach, Adam Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1856