Wilhelm Busch (physician)

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Wilhelm Busch's grave in the old cemetery in Bonn

Karl David Wilhelm Busch (born January 5, 1826 in Marburg , † November 24, 1881 in Bonn ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Busch studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from 1844 and dealt with zoology and anatomy. In the Prussian army in 1848 he served in the Schleswig-Holstein war in Schleswig hospitals . In the same year he did his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation under Johannes Peter Müller as Dr. med.

In 1851 he went to the Royal Surgical University Hospital Berlin to Bernhard von Langenbeck , in which he in 1852 habilitated . In 1855 he became associate professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . At the same time he worked at the St. Johannes Hospital in Bonn . In 1862/63 he was the rector of the university. In 1866 he took part in the German War , after which he went to walk. Medical Council was appointed. Meanwhile director of the surgical clinic at the University Hospital Bonn , he documented the world's first cancer immunotherapy in 1867 . During the Franco-Prussian War he was an advisory surgeon and general doctor . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Busch's publications and lectures were devoted to topics of comparative anatomy, physiology and pathology as well as today's subjects of ophthalmology , urology , ear, nose and throat medicine and trauma surgery . He died of perforated appendicitis at the age of 55 .

Busch had been a member of the Pilgrim Masonic Lodge in Berlin since March 20, 1849 . On December 6, 1857, he joined the Friedrich Wilhelm Lodge of the Iron Cross as a founding member of the Friedrich Wilhelm Lodge, which was then re-established in Bonn .

Busch was married to Agnes Sophia Friederika (1830–1910), daughter of the chemist and mineralogist Eilhard Mitscherlich . His eldest daughter, Agnes Laura Carolina (* 1854), married the painter and author of art textbooks Ernest Preyer . The younger daughter Frida (August 26, 1868 - August 31, 1961) was the first female medical student in Bonn and in 1903 was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität .

Busch died of complications from appendicitis . His grave is in the old cemetery in Bonn .

Works

  • De selachiorum et ganoideorum encephalo . Berlin 1848 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5779 (dissertation)
  • Observations on the anatomy and development of some marine invertebrates . Berlin 1851 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.9438
  • Surgical observations collected in the Königl. surgical university clinic in Berlin . Berlin 1854.
  • Textbook of surgery , 2 volumes. Berlin 1857–1869.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Busch (surgeon)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  2. ^ Alfred Toepel: The Friedrich Wilhelm box to the iron cross in Bonn and its predecessors: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the box . Carl Georgi Verlag, Bonn 1907, pp. 254/255.
  3. ↑ Busch, Wilhelm. In: Josef Niesen: Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 80.
  4. ^ Josef Niesen : The double Wilhelm Busch . In: Bönn's story and stories . Bonn BuchVerlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818821-2-4 , pp. 266 f .
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, Carl David Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1881
Place of death Bonn