Wilhelm Baum (physician)

Wilhelm Baum, 1845

Wilhelm Baum (born September 10, 1799 in Elbing , † September 6, 1883 in Göttingen ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Baum studied medicine in Königsberg , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1830 he became chief surgeon and head of the city hospital in Gdansk . For his services in fighting the cholera epidemic of 1831, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gdansk . He was the first honorary citizen of the city.

In 1842 he became a full professor at the University of Greifswald and later at the University of Göttingen . Here he had been Theodor Billroth's first surgical teacher . Together they worked in 1872 as founding members of the DGCH German Society for Surgery . From 1876 he was a member of the Leopoldina .

Baum invented new methods of surgery and treatment for patients suffering from polyps .

family

Wilhelm Baum came from a wealthy family that had spread out over the past two centuries in Elbing and Danzig . One granddaughter is the social politician of the Weimar Republic, Marie Baum . A nephew was the later judge at the Reich Higher Trade Court and the Reich Court of Baum Hambrook .

literature

• Georg Fischer:  Baum, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 250-254.

Web links

• Literature on Wilhelm Baum (physician) in the state bibliography MV

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Friedrich Schömann	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1848	August Friedrich Barkow