In the history of medicine, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Julius Friedrich Cohnheim as German pathologist (1839-1884).
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim was born at Demmin in 1839. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Marburg and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Leipzig University, Kiel University and University of Wrocław.
The recorded fields of work are pathology.
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.
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim died in 1884, aged 45. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leipzig University, Kiel University and University of Wrocław
- Fields: pathology
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