August Wilhelm Henschel

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August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel (born December 20, 1790 in Breslau ; † July 24, 1856 there ) was a Silesian - Prussian , German botanist and medical historian . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Hensch. "

Life

Henschel's father Elias was a doctor in Breslau. Henschel studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Breslau in 1812 (as the first doctor). Then he practiced as a doctor in Breslau. In 1816 he completed his habilitation in Breslau with a thesis on botany (on the nature of plants compared to other living beings) and became a private lecturer in pathology, and in 1820 he published a paper on the sexuality of plants, which made him famous at the time. In 1821 he became associate professor and in 1832 full professor in Breslau. He gave lectures on botany, medicine and the history of medicine. In 1852/53 he was rector of the University of Breslau.

As a medical historian he is in favor of the discovery of the Compendium Salernitanum , which he found in the library of the Maria Magdalenen High School in Breslau in 1846 . It is a collection of 35 medical writings from the Salerno School from the 12th century. Most of them were unknown and were edited by Salvatore de Renzi with the collaboration of Henschel in 1852 along with other writings from the school that were subsequently found. He also published on the history of science and the history of medicine in Silesia.

Honors

In 1842 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The plant genus Henschelia C. Presl from the eggplant family (Hernandiaceae) is also named after him .

Writings and works

  • with Salvatore De Renzi and Charles Victor Daremberg : Collectio Salernitana: ossia documenti inediti, e trattati di medicina appartenenti alla scuola medica Salernitana , 5 volumes, Tipografia del Filiatre-Sebezio, Naples 1852–1859; Reprint Bologna 1967 (= Biblioteca di storia della medicina , II, 1–5).
  • Silesia's Scientific Conditions in the Fourteenth Century; a contribution in particular to the history of medicine , 1850, 1967
  • Defense of the Inflammatory Nature of Croups , in: Horn's Archives for Medical Experience, 1813
  • with Franz Joseph Schelver : From the sexuality of plants, studies by Dr. August Henschel. In addition to a historical appendix by Dr. FJ Schelver , Breslau 1820 Google Books
  • Commentatio de Aristotele botanico philosopho , Breslau 1824
  • Vita GE Rumphii , Plini indici: accedunt specimen materiae Rumphianae medicae clavisque herbarii et thesauri Amboinensis , 1833
  • De Aristotele botanico philosopho , 1823
  • About Some Difficulties in the Pathology of Hundswuth , Breslau 1829
  • On the history of medicine in Silesia. 1. Booklet, The pre-literary beginnings , GP Aderholz, Breslau 1837 Google Books
  • Synopsis chronologica scriptorum medii aevi medicorum ac physicorum quae codicibus bibliothecarum Vratislaviensium continentur , 3 edizioni nel 1847
  • Catalogus codicum medii aevi medicorum ac physicorum qui manuscripti in bibliothecis Vratislaviensibus asservantur. 2 volumes, Breslau (1847).
  • The medical doctorate, its necessity and its reform, Breslau 1848
  • Crato von Krafftheim's life and medical practice, 1853
  • Francesco Petrarca, Its Importance to Scholarship, Philosophy and Religion, 1853
  • De praxi medica Salernitana commentatio: cui praemissus est Anonymi Salernitani de adventu medici ad aegrotum libellus e Compendio Salernitano saec. XII. MSS. editus , Breslau 1850
  • Antonio Krocker… Summos In Medicina Et Chirurgia Honores Halis Ante Haec Decem Lustra Initos AD XIII. Cal. November A. MDCCC Congratulations Universitatis Literarum Vratislaviensis Ordo Medicorum Interprete AGE Th. Henschel: Inest 1. Anonymi Salernitani De Adventu Medici Ad Aegrotum Libellus Ex Compendio Salernitano Saec. XII MS Editus; 2. Commentatio De Praxi Medica Salernitana Compendio Et Libello Isto Maxime Illustrata , 1850
  • Praemissae sunt de bibliothecarum Vratislaviensium codicibus manuscriptis medii aevi medicis ac physicis observationes generales , 1847
  • Inest synopsis chronologica scriptorum medii aevi medicorum ac physicorum quae codicibus bibliothecarum Vratislaviensibus continentur , 1847

He also published in the journal for the history of medicine Janus , which appeared in 3 volumes in Breslau from 1846 to 1849, which he edited and founded (another 2 volumes appeared from 1851 to 1853).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Before the university there was only one Collegium medicum-chirurgicum, at which Henschel also initially studied
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  3. ↑ AWE Th. Henschel: The Salernitan Manuscript. In: Janus. Volume 1, 1846, pp. 40-84 and 300-386.
  4. ↑ Member entry of August Wilhelm Eduard Henschel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  6. ↑ See also the text 'De adventu medici ad aegrotum' after the Salernitan doctor Archimatheus. Edited, translated and introduced by Hermann Grensemann . In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 233-251.
personal data
SURNAME Henschel, August Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henschel, August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor (full name); Hensch. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1856
Place of death Wroclaw