Heinrich August Wrisberg

Wrisberg

Heinrich August Wrisberg (born June 20, 1739 in Sankt Andreasberg ; † March 29, 1808 in Göttingen ) was a gynecologist and from 1753 to 1758 director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Georg August University of Göttingen .

In the five years of his tenure, the clinic's number of deliveries rose to 576, although the premises were still cramped. The entire clinic consisted of just two rooms, one for the women giving birth and another for the caretaker and his family. This facility was intended to train midwives and students. Under his predecessor Georg Roederer , there had been 232 births within his twelve-year term. As a student of Roederer, he became personal physician to the Prince of Nassau-Weilberg in 1792 . His successor was Friedrich Benjamin Osiander .

In 1805 Heinrich August Wrisberg became nominal professor of anatomy and headed the anatomical institute. But the surgeon Conrad Johann Martin Langenbeck (1776–1851) expressed dissatisfaction, and the expert Adolph Friedrich Hempel (1767–1834) described the situation as follows:

1. The lack of Cadavern ,
2. Errors regarding the use of the existing cadavers,
3. Lack of preparations and mistakes in keeping them,
4. Too much limited time to prepare,
5. Mistakes regarding the cleanliness and the removal of the cadavers,
6. Defects in the furnishing of the building and other necessary needs.

Wrisberg died 3 years later. Samuel Thomas Soemmerring was one of his students .

Wrisberg had been an extraordinary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1770 and a full member since 1776 .

legacy

The following anatomical structures are named after Wrisberg:

• The Wrisberg ligament: A ligament that lies posterior to the posterior cruciate ligament of the knee, the lig. Meniscofemorale posterius
• The intermedius nerve : A branch of the facial nerve
• The Wrisberg cartilage: a functionless cartilage of the larynx ( Cartilago cuneiformis , Tuberculum cuneiforme)

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich August Wrisberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• History of the University Women's Clinic in Göttingen

literature

• Sigfrid Vogel: Surgery, its clinics and teachers at the Georg-August University in Göttingen through the ages , contribution to the history of surgery at German universities.
• Brita Thode: Die Göttinger Anatomie 1733-1828 , inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, Göttingen 1979
• Ernst Gurlt :  Wrisberg, Heinrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 257 f.

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1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 264.
3. ↑ A.Alfieri et al. a .: History of the nervus intermedius of Wrisberg. in Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger 2010, PMID 20427169