Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch

Dietrich Busch (1788-1858)

Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch (March 16, 1788 – March 15, 1858) was a German obstetrician born in Marburg.

In 1806 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Marburg, becoming an associate professor of surgery in 1814. In 1817 he was appointed professor of obstetrics at Marburg, where from 1820 to 1829 was director of the department of obstetrics. In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold (1775-1828) as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. He maintained this position until his death in 1858, and in 1835/36 served as university rector in Berlin.

Among his better known students in Berlin were Carl Siegmund Franz Crede (1819-1892), Karl von Hecker (1827-1882) and Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827-1919). Following his death, he was succeeded in Berlin by Edward Arnold Martin (1809-1875).

During his career he was an editor of the following journals; Gemeinsame Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde (1825-34), Neue Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde (1834-53) and Monatsschrift für Geburtskunde (1853-58).

Selected publications

• Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde (1829); several editions
• Die theoretische und practische geburtskunde durch abbildungen erläutert, (1838)
• Das Geschlechtsleben des Weibes in physiologischer, pathologischer und therapeutischer Hinsicht, five volumes (1839–44)
• Atlas geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, mit Bezugnahme auf das Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde, (1841)
• Handbuch der Geburtskunde in alphabetischer Ordnung, four volumes w/A. Moser (1840–43)

References

• [1] translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• Katalog der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Biography in German)
• A portion of the biographical information is based on an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

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Name	Busch, Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich
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Date of birth	March 16, 1788
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Date of death	March 15, 1858
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