In the history of medicine, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen as German pathologist (1833-1910).
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen was born at Gütersloh in 1833. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Bonn and University of Würzburg.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Würzburg, University of Königsberg and University of Strasbourg.
The recorded fields of work are anatomical pathology, medicine and pathology.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen died in 1910, aged 77. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Würzburg, University of Königsberg and University of Strasbourg
- Fields: anatomical pathology, medicine and pathology
