August Wilhelm Henschel
August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel ( Breslau, 20 December 1790 - Breslau, 24 July 1856) was a German physician and botanist, best known through his works on history of medicine and about Schola Medica Salernitana. Biography Education He was educated at the medical and surgical college at Breslau, the '' Ober-Collegium medicum'' in Berlin, and the universities of Heidelberg and Breslau ('' Medicinae Doctor'' in 1813). He practised medicine in Breslau from 1813 to 1816, and in the latter year was appointed ''Privatdozent'' in pathology at the university of that city. Henschel was of Jewish origin, the son of the physician Elias Henschel (1755-1839); in 1820 he converted to Christianity.Michler, Markwart, "Henschel, August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor" in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie''. Vol. 8 (1969), p. 556Online version Retrieved 2016-03-28. Scholarly and main works In 1820, Henschel published his first important work, ''Von der Sexualität der Pflanzen'', on the linnaean ...
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