Christian Ludwig Mursinna

Christian Ludwig Mursinna (born December 17, 1744 in Stolp , † March 18, 1823 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Mursinna first attended the Latin school in his hometown of Stolp and was then apprenticed to a bather in Stolp by the magistrate in 1757 , but came to a city surgeon in Kolberg as early as 1758 . After completing his apprenticeship, he became a regimental surgeon in the military hospital in Breslau and assistant to Caspar Friedrich Wolff in training surgeons during the Seven Years' War . In 1787 he became professor of surgery at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum in Berlin and at the Medical-Surgical Military Academy as well as general surgeon of the Prussian army, later also conducting surgeon and obstetrician at the Charité . He was a teacher at Pépinière , which was founded in 1795 , wrote several medical textbooks and published the Journal für Chirurgie, Medizinikunde, etc. from 1800 to 1820 in Berlin in five volumes . Obstetrics out. He was famous for his operations of cataract , which he called (extracapsular) cataract extraction that performed in Berlin in 1787 the ancient cataract permanently replaced. He retired in 1817, but continued teaching until 1820.

Works

Reflections on the Ruhr , Berlin 1780, 2nd edition 1787;
Medical and surgical observations , Berlin 1782
Of the diseases of pregnant women, childbearing women, etc. Säugenden , Berlin 1784–86, 2 volumes, 2nd edition 1792

literature

Edith Heischkel : Christian Ludwig Mursinna (1744–1823) , in: Pommersche Lebensbilder , Volume 3 (Adolf Hofmeister and Wilhelm Braun, eds.), Stettin 1939, pp. 150–160.
Ernst Gurlt : Mursinna, Christian Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 81-84.
Christian Ludwig Mursinna . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . First year 1823, 2nd issue, Ilmenau 1824, pp. 443-463.
Josef Scheibe: Christian Ludwig Mursinna: Development path and achievement , dissertation at the Humboldt University in Berlin 1964.

Individual evidence

↑ Aloys Henning: On the paradigm shift in cataract surgery, especially in Berlin from 1755. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 18, 1999, pp. 271-296; here: pp. 289–291.

personal data
SURNAME	Mursinna, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stumble
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1823
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Aloys Henning: On the paradigm shift in cataract surgery, especially in Berlin from 1755. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 18, 1999, pp. 271-296; here: pp. 289–291.