Dorothea Christiane Erxleben practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Dorothea Christiane Erxleben as physician (1715–1762).
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben was born at Quedlinburg in 1715. Her recorded nationality is Germany. She trained at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
Her posts were held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The recorded fields of work are health sciences.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben died in 1762, aged 47. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Fields: health sciences
