Johann Georg Wirsung practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Johann Georg Wirsung as German anatomist.
Johann Georg Wirsung was born at Augsburg in 1600. His recorded nationality is Germany.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johann Georg Wirsung died in 1643, aged 43. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
