Heinrich August Wrisberg

Heinrich August Wrisberg ( born June 20, 1739 Saint Andrew Berg, † March 29, 1808 in Göttingen) was a gynecologist and 1753-1758 Director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Georg-August -Universität Göttingen.

In the five years of his tenure, the number of births of the hospital rose to 576, although the rooms were cramped as before. The whole clinic consisted of only two rooms, a birthing for women and another for the caretaker and his family. This device was intended for the training of midwives and students. Under his predecessor Georg Roederer figure had been 232 births within the twelve -year term. As a student of Roederer he was in 1792 physician to the Prince of Nassau- Weilberg. His successor was Friedrich Benjamin Osiander.

In 1805 Heinrich August Wrisberg nominal professor of anatomy and director of the Anatomical Institute. But the surgeon Conrad Johann Martin Langenbeck (1776-1851) expressed dissatisfaction and the appraiser Adolph Friedrich Hempel (1767-1834) described the situation as follows:

Wrisberg died three years later. Among his pupils was also Samuel Thomas Soemmerring.

Legacy

After Wrisberg following anatomical structures are named:

  • The Wrisberg ligament: A the posterior cruciate ligament of the knee Fitted to the rear band, the ligamentum meniscofemorale posterior
  • The nervus intermedius: A side branch of the facial nerve
  • The Wrisberg cartilage: A non-functioning cartilage of the larynx ( cartilage cuneiformis, tubercle cuneiformis )
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