Adolph Henke
Adolph Christian Heinrich Henke ( born April 13, 1775 in Braunschweig, † August 8, 1843 in Erlangen ) was a professor of physiology, pathology and pharmacology State in Erlangen. He was the founder of Legal Medicine.
Life
Adolph Henke was the sixth son of the pastor and preacher garrison Ludwig Henke (1736-1785) and Wilhelmine Henke, born Spohr ( 1744-1806 ). A brother was the secret Justice Edward Henke.
1791 Adolph Henke studied at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick initially theology, medicine, and soon after moved to the University of Helmstedt, 1798/99 to Göttingen and received his PhD in 1799 in Helmstedt. In 1802 he settled as a general practitioner in Braunschweig. In 1805 he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship of pathology at the University of Erlangen. In 1809 he gave the first lecture on the Medicina forensis, the beginning of the field of forensic medicine. In 1812 he published the first edition of his major work: Textbook of Forensic Medicine out (1841 was the 10th edition of this work published by Henke itself). In 1815 he became professor of physiology, pathology and pharmacology State in Erlangen. Multiple Henke was Vice-Rector of the University of Erlangen and in 1821 appointed a Privy Councillor. 1836 Henke ill from a chronic liver disease and died in 1843.
Since 1810 Henke was married to Sophie Henke, born Oertel ( 1793 to 1846 ), they had eight children, four of whom died young. His second daughter Rosalie (1813-1894) married the professor of zoology, physiology and anatomy Rudolf Wagner (1805-1864), who had studied with his father and later biographical sketch of the memories of Adolph Henke has written.
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Henke was of high imposing figure; his awe-inspiring personality and his serious mild, this undemanding measuredness away near him unworthy of each word and character. An enemy of all Heimlich tuna, everything counterfeiting and Schwätzens, he entered every open and firmly oppose, but always in a fine, noble manner. You heard from his lips no indelicate word. He helped where he could, was quite cheap and benevolent, so friendly.