In the history of medicine, Moritz Heinrich Romberg is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Moritz Heinrich Romberg as German physician (1795-1873).
Moritz Heinrich Romberg was born at Meiningen in 1795. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Vienna.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Charité.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Moritz Heinrich Romberg died in 1873, aged 78. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Charité
