Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck

Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck ( born December 5, 1776 in Horne Castle; † January 24, 1851 in Göttingen ) was a German anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, editor and author of appropriate reference books.

Life

Konrad Langenbeck ( in some sources also Conrad) was the son of a pastor and Horne Burgers also the uncle of the surgeon Bernhard von Langenbeck. Konrad Langenbeck studied from 1794 to 1798 medicine at Ferdinand Loder at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena and received a doctorate in med after successful eye surgery, the Langenbeck performed in his medical practice in Horne Castle, he received from the King House of Hanover a scholarship for further studies, first at the University of Vienna and then at the Julius- Maximilians -Universität Würzburg at Carl Caspar von Siebold. 1802 Langenbeck habilitated at August Gottlieb Richter at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen with Scripture With a simple and secure method of lithotomy. In the same year he became a lecturer and worked as a surgeon in the Göttingen Academic Hospital, Karl Gustav Himly initiated. Due to problems in the cooperation with Himly to Langenbeck had built its own auditorium where he held anatomical lectures since 1803. 1804 he was appointed extraordinary professor. 1807 founded Langenbeck own institute for surgery and ophthalmology, and in 1814 he was appointed a full professor at the University of Göttingen and was appointed surgeon general of the Hanoverian army. From 1828 to 1829 he was the owner of your own Theatrum Anatomicum. His teaching activities included in Göttingen from 1802 to 1851, almost half a century. Among his pupils were Bernhard von Langenbeck and Louis Stromeyer.

Langenbeck was from 1806 to 1813 in Göttingen, the library of Surgery and Ophthalmology ( 4 volumes) and 1815-1828 the New Series (4 volumes to date).

Awards

• Knight of the Order of Guelph

Works

• Nosological and treatment of the surgical disorders in connection with the description of the surgical operation. Dieterich, Göttingen 1823.
• Novelty theatrum anatomicum quod God Ingae. Dieterich, Göttingen, 1829.
• Handbook of Anatomy anatomicae with allusion to the Icones. 2 parts in one volume. Dieterich, Göttingen from 1831 to 1836.