Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle as German physician (1809–1885).
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was born at Fürth in 1809. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Bavaria. He trained at University of Bonn.
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 Göttingen, Heidelberg University and University of Zurich.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, pathology and anatomy.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Bavaria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle died in 1885, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Göttingen, Heidelberg University and University of Zurich
- Fields: medicine, pathology and anatomy
