In the history of medicine, Georg Heinrich Weber is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Georg Heinrich Weber as German botanist and physician (1752-1828).
Georg Heinrich Weber was born at Göttingen in 1752. His recorded nationality is Electorate of Hanover. He trained at Kiel University and University of Göttingen.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Kiel University.
The recorded fields of work are botany.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Electorate of Hanover matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Georg Heinrich Weber died in 1828, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Kiel University
- Fields: botany
