Gustav Biedermann Günther

Gustav Biedermann Günther ( born January 22, 1801 in Schandau, † September 8, 1866 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon and university lecturer.

Life

From 1813 to 1818 Gunther attended high school Pforta. After graduation, he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig. 1819/20 he made with his colleague Ludwig Thienemann one and a half year journey to Norway and Iceland. On November 9, 1824, he received his doctorate in Leipzig for Dr. med. He went to Hamburg in 1825 and became surgical assistant to Johann Georg Karl Fricke. After he had settled in 1829 as a general practitioner, he opened in 1831 an orthopedic private institute. " However, he gradually came to believe that the orthopedic far from virtue to do what the laity from it, " and gave the doctor's office after ten years.

On August 8, 1837 he was Christian Gottlieb deck 's successor in the chair of surgery at the Christian- Albrechts- University of Kiel. He was director of the surgical clinic of the Hospital Friedrich Kiel. Four years later, in October 1841, he was appointed the University of Leipzig. Over 25 years he headed the surgery at the Jacob Hospital ( Leipzig). He died of cholera, leaving behind his wife Friederike Auguste née Brown.

Works

In life-long quest to make the surgery on anatomical basics, he issued a Surgical Anatomy in pictures with the artist Carl Julius Milde. Released only the two departments osteology and muscle teaching ( 1838-1840 ).

• Remarks on the curvature of the spine and particularly the means to prevent the same. As a result of more than ten years of experience. Kiel 1839.GoogleBooks
• The wrist in mechanical, anatomical and surgical relationship. With drawings by Julius Milde. 1841
• Operative surgery on corpses. 1843/44. Google Books
• The Verrenckung the first thumb element according to the back surface, 1844. Google Books
• About the construction of the human foot and its zweckmäßgste clothing. Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1863. Google Books
• Guide to the operations on the human body 3 parts. Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1859 to 1865. Google Books

Operationslehre

With Eduard Julius Kühn, Friedrich Philipp Ritterich, Karl Wilhelm Streubel, Benno Schmidt Gottlob Ernst Adolf Coccius, Karl Wilhelm Streubel, Hermann Friedrich Wendt, among others Günther was the doctrine of the bloody operations on the human body.