Christian Gottfried Heinrich Bäumler (13 May 1836 in Buchau,
Upper Franconia - 1933) was a German physician known for work involving
infectious diseases
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.
Background
Bäumler studied medicine at several universities, earning his doctorate at the
University of Erlangen in 1860. From 1863 to 1866 he was resident medical officer at the "German Hospital" in
London, and from 1866 to 1872 was an assistant physician at the German Hospital and at the Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. In 1866 he became a member of the
Royal College of Physicians, London. After his return to Germany, he served as a professor at Erlangen and later at the
University of Freiburg.
Publications
In 1870 Bäumler published an English translation of
Felix von Niemeyer's ''Klinische Vorträge über die Lungenschwindsucht'' as "Clinical lectures on
pulmonary consumption
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". Other noted works by Bäumler include:
* ''Handbuch der chronischen Infectionskrankheiten'', 1874 - Handbook on chronic infectious diseases.
* ''Syphilis'', 1886
* ''Ueber die Influenza von 1889 und 1890'', 1890 - On the
influenza of 1889 and 1890.
* ''Die Entwickelung der Medizin, einst und jetzt'', 1902 - The development of medicine, then and now.
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References
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1836 births
1933 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
German infectious disease physicians