In the history of medicine, Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch as German anatomist (1868-1955).
Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch was born at Saarbrücken in 1868. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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 Wilhelm Kopsch died in 1955, aged 87. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
