Edward Sieveking

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Edward Henry Sieveking

Sir Edward Henry Sieveking (born August 24, 1816 in Bishopsgate , London , † February 24, 1904 ) was an English medic.

Edward Sieveking studied at the University of Berlin with Johannes Peter Müller , at the University College London and at the University of Edinburgh . In 1841 he received his doctorate in Edinburgh.

Edward Sieveking worked as a doctor in Hamburg from 1842 to 1846 . In the St. Georg district he founded a children's hospital with his aunt Amalie Sieveking . From 1847 to 1866 he worked in London at Look Hospital and then as a senior physician at St. Mary's Hospital. From 1863 he was the personal physician of the future King Edward VII and from 1873 of Queen Victoria . In 1886 he was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor .

In 1858 he invented the aesthesiometer .

Fonts

  • A Treatise on Ventilation (1846)
  • The Training Institutions for Nurses and the Workhouses (1849)
  • as translator of a work by Carl Rokitansky into English A Manual of Pathological Anatomy (vol. ii, London 1849)
  • as translator of a work by Moritz Heinrich Romberg into English A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man (2 volumes, London 1853)
  • as editor of the British and Foreign Medico-Surgical Review (1855)
  • On Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures, their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London 1858; 2nd ed. 1861)
  • A Manual of Pathological Anatomy , with Charles Handfield Jones (London 1854; 2nd ed. 1875)
  • The Medical Adviser in Life Assurance (London 1874; 2nd ed. 1882)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Gender Book Volume 142, Verlag CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn, 1966, 11th Hamburg Volume
personal data
SURNAME Sieveking, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieveking, Edward Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bishopsgate , London
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1904