Heinrich Giesker
Joseph Conrad Heinrich Giesker (born January 15, 1808 in Osnabrück , † August 3, 1858 in Bern ) was a German and later Swiss surgeon , obstetrician and university professor .
Life
Heinrich Giesker studied medicine at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1828 to 1832 . At the beginning of his studies he became a member of the Corps Hassia Göttingen. He completed his studies with a doctorate. med. in the surgical clinic of Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck , to whose assistants he belonged.
After his first medical practice in Mühlhausen in Prussian-Saxony, where he was entrusted with the management of a hospital during a cholera epidemic, he deepened operative surgery in Berlin with Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , Leipzig and Vienna. In the winter semester of 1835 he became a private lecturer at the University of Zurich, where he read about plastic surgery, ophthalmology and otiatry. In 1838 he founded an orthopedic institute in Seefeld with a focus on conservative and plastic surgery. In 1852 he received the citizenship of Zurich and became a Swiss citizen. In the winter semester of 1855 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Zurich and head of the surgical polyclinic. In the last year before his death, he became professor of obstetrics and director of the obstetric institute. He died of a stroke during the congress of the Swiss Natural Research Society.
Heinrich Giesker had the reputation of a brilliant doctor and surgeon. He was considered a friend of the poor.
Fonts
- Splenology: 1st division, anatomical-physiological studies of the human spleen, together with the information provided by older and more recent writers, 1835
- On Plastic Surgery, Morioplasty, 1835
literature
- Claudia Erika Mattig: Collection of portraits and biographies Meyer zum Felsenegg, Zurich, part 6 (ground floor) , 2012. ( digitized; 1.36 MB )
Web links
- Directory of lecturers at the University of Zurich, summer semester 1833 to winter semester 1937/38 (PDF; 9.6 MB), edited by F. Peter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 73 , 71a
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giesker, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giesker, Joseph Conrad Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German and later Swiss surgeon, obstetrician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1858 |
| Place of death | Bern |