Theodor von Dusch

Theodor von shower ( born September 17, 1824 in Karlsruhe, † January 13, 1890 in Heidelberg) was a German physician.

Life

Shower came from an old Palatine family of civil servants. His grandfather Franz Edler von Hyzinth shower was Landschreiber of Oberamts Neustadt an der Haardt, Electoral Palatinate Government in Heidelberg and from 1803 the Grand Duke of Baden Councilor in Mannheim. The father, Alexander Anton Edler von shower, was from 1843 to 1849 Baden Minister of State of the Grand Ducal House and of Foreign Affairs.

Theodor von shower first studied law in Freiburg, then medicine in Heidelberg. His teachers were especially Jakob Henle, Karl von Pfeufer and Maximilian Joseph von Chelius. In 1847 he received his doctorate. In 1848 he continued his studies in Paris, but had to return early because of the outbreak of the February revolution. Shower was from 1848 to 1854 worked as a general practitioner in Mannheim. In 1854 he qualified as a professor in Heidelberg and was there in 1856 as associate professor of pathology and director of the medical clinic. He was the first conducted in Heidelberg successfully from a tracheotomy in diphtheria and a craniotomy. In 1864 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1870 he became a full professor in Heidelberg. Shower was one of the outstanding personalities of the Medical Faculty at the University of Heidelberg. Sustainable, who did much also to the structure of Luis institution that was carried out with the generous support of the Grand Duchess Luise.

Shower was a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg (1842 ) and Nassovia Heidelberg ( 1843). He was married to Auguste, a subsidiary of Heidelberger chemist Leopold Gmelin.

Works

• Contributions to the pathogenesis of jaundice. 1854 habilitation dissertation
• Textbook of heart disease. Leipzig 1868
• The diseases of the endo-and myocardium. In: Gerhardt's Manual of Children's Diseases. 1870