Hermann Friedrich Stannius practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Hermann Friedrich Stannius as German anatomist, physiologist and entomologist (1808-1883).
Hermann Friedrich Stannius was born at Hamburg in 1808. His recorded nationality is Hamburg. He trained at Akademisches Gymnasium and Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums.
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 Rostock.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Hamburg matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Hermann Friedrich Stannius died in 1883, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Rostock
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