In the history of medicine, Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher as Danish physician, botanist, naturalist (1757–1830).
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher was born at Glückstadt in 1757. His recorded nationality is Denmark.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at University of Copenhagen.
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 Denmark matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher died in 1830, aged 73. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Copenhagen
- Fields: botany
