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.
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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 |