August Förster (physician)

August Förster ( born July 8, 1822 in Weimar, † March 15, 1865 in Würzburg) was a German physician and pathologist.

Life

Förster was initially trained as a draftsman and then studied medicine from 1841 to 1845 at the University of Jena, where he received his doctorate. He taught himself to pathologists by publishing a first textbook.

Against this background, in 1852 obtained a A.O. Professor at the University of Göttingen, followed in 1858 a professorship at the University of Würzburg as the successor of Virchow.