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Louis Waldenburg

German physician

Died when: 43 years 257 days (524 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Louis Waldenburg

Louis Waldenburg (31 July 1837 – 14 April 1881) was a German physician.Waldenburg was born in Filehne, Posen.He graduated from the University of Berlin (M.D. 1860).

After a postgraduate course at Heidelberg he established himself in Berlin as a specialist in chest and throat diseases.From 1864 to 1868 he co-edited the Allgemeine Medizinische Central-Zeitung (General Medical Center Newspaper).

In 1865 he earned the title of Privatdozent at Berlin University.From 1868 until his death he edited the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift (Berlin Clinical Weekly).

In 1871 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1877 department physician, at the Charité hospital in Berlin.Among Waldenburg's many works: * "De origine et structura membranarum, quæ in tuberculis capsulisque verminosis involucrum præbent," a prize essay at the University of Berlin, 1859. * "Über Blutaustritt und Aneurysmenbildung, durch Parasiten bedingt" ("Blood Leakage and Aneurysms Caused by Parasites"), in Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie, 1860. * "Über Structur und Ursprung der Wurmhaltigen Cysten" ("Structure and Origin of Worm-Containing Cysts"), in Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, 1862. * Lehrbuch der Respiratorischen Therapie (Textbook of Respiratory Therapy), Berlin, 1864 (second edition 1872). * Die Tuberkulose, die Lungenschwindsucht und Scrofulose (Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Consumption and Scrofulosis), Berlin, 1869. * Die Pneumatische Behandlung der Respirations- und Circulations-Krankheiten (Pneumatic Treatment of Respiratory and Circulatory Diseases), Berlin, 1875 (second edition 1880).

Waldenburg died in Berlin on 14 April 1881.


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