August Wilhelm Henschel
August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel was a German physician and botanist, best known through his works on history of medicine and about Schola Medica Salernitana.
Biography
Education
He was educated at the medical and surgical college at Breslau, the Ober-Collegium medicum in Berlin, and the universities of Heidelberg and Breslau. He practised medicine in Breslau from 1813 to 1816, and in the latter year was appointed Privatdozent in pathology at the university of that city.Henschel was of Jewish origin, the son of the physician Elias Henschel ; in 1820 he converted to Christianity.
Scholarly and main works
In 1820, Henschel published his first important work, Von der Sexualität der Pflanzen, on the linnaean taxonomy, which attracted considerable attention in the world of science. He was appointed assistant professor at his alma mater in 1821, and in 1832 professor of anatomy, physiology, and pathology.Henschel is best known through his researches into the history of medicine, the results of which he published in the medical periodical Janus, Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Litteratur der Medizin. Of his other works may be mentioned: Vertheidigung der Entzündlichen Natur des Croups ; Commentatio de Aristotele Botanico et Philosopho, Breslau, 1824; Über einige Schwierigkeiten in der Pathologie der Hundswuth, Breslau, 1829; Zur Geschichte der Medicin in Schlesien, Breslau, 1837; and Das Medicinische Doctorat, seine Nothwendigkeit und seine Reform, Breslau, 1848.
Works
Schlesiens wissenschaftliche Zustände im vierzehnten Jahrhundert; ein Beitrag insbesondere zur Geschichte der Medicin ''Clavis Rumphiana botanica et zoologica: accedunt vita G.E. Rumphii, Plinii indici, specimenque materiae medicae Amboinensis, 3 editions published in 1833Von der Sexualität der Planzen, 1820Commentatio de Aristotele botanico philosopho by August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel, 4 editions published in 1824Vita G. E. Rumphii, Plini indici: accedunt specimen materiae Rumphianae medicae clavisque herbarii et thesauri Amboinensis, 2 editions published in 1833 De Aristotele botanico philosopho, 2 editions published in 1823 Zur Geschichte der Medicin in Schlesien. 1. Heft, Die vorliterärischen Anfänge, 3 editions published between 1837 and 1967Synopsis chronologica scriptorum medii aevi medicorum ac physicorum quae codicibus bibliothecarum Vratislaviensium continentur, 3 editions published in 1847De praxi medica Salernitana commentatio: cui praemissus est Anonymi Salernitani de adventu medici ad aegrotum libellus e Compendio Salernitano saec. XII. MSS. editus, 1850Antonio Krocker... Summos In Medicina Et Chirurgia Honores Halis Ante Haec Decem Lustra Initos A. D. XIII. Cal. Novembr. A. MDCCC Gratulatur Universitatis Literarum Vratislaviensis Ordo Medicorum Interprete A. G. E. Th. Henschel : Inest 1. Anonymi Salernitani De Adventu Medici Ad Aegrotum Libellus Ex Compendio Salernitano Saec. XII M. S. Editus; 2. Commentatio De Praxi Medica Salernitana Compendio Et Libello Isto Maxime Illustrata, 1850Praemissae sunt de bibliothecarum Vratislaviensium codicibus manuscriptis medii aevi medicis ac physicis observationes generales, 1847Inest synopsis chronologica scriptorum medii aevi medicorum ac physicorum quae codicibus bibliothecarum Vratislaviensibus continentur, 1847- , ''