Johann Christian August Heinroth practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Johann Christian August Heinroth as German psychiatrist.
Johann Christian August Heinroth was born at Leipzig in 1773. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Saxony.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Leipzig University.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Saxony matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johann Christian August Heinroth died in 1843, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leipzig University
