In the history of medicine, Heinrich Ranke is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Heinrich Ranke as German pediatrician (1830-1909).
Heinrich Ranke was born at Rückersdorf in 1830. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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.
Heinrich Ranke died in 1909, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
