Karl Friedrich Heusinger

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Johann Christian Karl Friedrich Heusinger , also Carl Friedrich Heusinger , from 1872 von Heusinger (born February 28, 1792 in Farnroda , today part of Wutha-Farnroda in the Wartburg district near Eisenach , Thuringia ; † May 5, 1883 in Marburg ), was a German anatomist , Pathologist, physiologist and medical historian.

Life

Heusinger came from a family of scholars. After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine and natural sciences at the University of Jena . 1809, he was among the first members of the Corps Thuringia Jena I . He moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . After receiving his doctorate , he became the assistant to Karl Gustav Himly in Göttingen in 1812 . He volunteered as a military doctor in the Prussian army and from 1813 participated as a military doctor in the wars of liberation and the campaigns to Holland and France, after which he ran a hospital in Sedan until 1819 . In 1821 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Jena. From 1824 to 1829 he worked as a full professor of anatomy and physiology at the Würzburg University Hospital . In 1829 he was appointed professor for practical medicine and clinic as well as pathology and director of the University Clinic Marburg . In his second marriage he was married to a daughter of the lawyer Georg Robert .

Heusinger is considered to be the founder of comparative pathology and geographical nosology. Heusinger corresponded a. a. with Charles Darwin . His most important work was The Outline of Physical and Psychological Anthropology . In 1848, as Germany's leading medical historian, he founded the first medical-historical and scientific journal, Janus .

Honors

Fonts

  • About the structure and function of the spleen . Eisenach 1817.
  • Inflammation and enlargement of the spleen Eisenach, 1820 and 1823.
  • System of Histology , 2 booklets. Eisenach, 1822.
  • Outline of physical and psychological anthropology . Eisenach 1829.
  • Outline of the encyclopedia and methodology of nature and medicine . Eisenach 1839.
  • Recherches de pathologie comparée , 2 vols. Kassel 1844–1853.
  • Anthrax diseases of animals and humans . Erlangen 1850.
  • The so-called geophagia or tropical chlorosis . Kassel 1852.

literature

  • Franz Gundlach (edit.): Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg, vol. 1: From 1527 to 1910 . Elwert, Marburg 1927, p. 215 f.
  • Robert Herrlinger : The development of medical history teaching at the Julius Maximilians University. In: Messages from the Georg Sticker Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. No. 1, (March) 1957, pp. 1-8; here: p. 3 f.
  • Michael Rosner: Karl Friedrich Heusinger 1792–1883, his life and his contribution to veterinary medicine . Dissertation, University of Bern 1967.
  • Michael Rosner: Karl Friedrich Heusinger 1792–1883: his life and his contribution to veterinary medicine . Diss. Univ. Bern 1967.
  • Ulrich Malchau: Carl Friedrich Heusinger (1792–1883): his life and work and its significance for the Marburg medicine of the nineteenth century . Diss. Univ. Marburg 1973.
  • Wolfgang Speckner: Carl Friedrich von Heusinger: his life u. his work in Würzburg (1824–1829) . Diss. Univ. Wurzburg 1982.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Heusinger, Karl Friedrich von. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 591.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5663, p. 118 ( digitized version ) ..
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 129 , 5.
  3. Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Heusinger, Karl Friedrich von. 2005, p. 591.
  4. Robert Herrlinger: The development of medical history teaching at the Julius Maximilians University. In: Messages from the Georg Sticker Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. Issue 1, March 1957, p. 4.