Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich
Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich (2 September 1798 in Roßtal – 6 December 1857 in Ansbach) was a German physician. He was a brother-in-law to archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach who married his sister Henriette.
From 1817 to 1821, he studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation titled Tubercula in cerebro reperta. Following graduation, he worked as a physician in the cities of Roth and Nuremberg. From 1824 onward, he maintained a medical practice in Ansbach.[1]
Heidenreich notably took part in the autopsy of Kaspar Hauser, following the latter's mysterious death in December 1833. As a result of his findings, he published the treatise Kaspar Hauser's Verwundung, Krankheit und Leichenöffnung ("Kaspar Hauser's wounds, illness and autopsy").[2][3]
Selected works[]
- Orthopaedie; oder, Werth der Mechanik zur Heilung der Verkrümmungen am menschlichen Leibe, 1827 – Orthopedics; value of the mechanism for healing the curvature of the human body.
- Revision der neuern Ansichten und Behandlung von Croup, 1841 – Revision of modern views and treatment of croup.
- Der Kropf; chirurgische Monographie, 1845 – The goiter. a surgical monograph.
- Vorkehr und Verfahren gegen die Cholera, 1854 – Precautions and measures against cholera.
- Elemente der therapeutischen Physik.1854 – Elements of therapeutic physics.[4]
References[]
- ^ Görres - Hittorp, Volume 4 edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
- ^ de.Wikisource Kaspar Hauser
- ^ The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser by Jeffrey Masson
- ^ OCLC Classify published works
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- 1798 births
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- University of Würzburg alumni
- People from Fürth (district)
- 19th-century German physicians