Johann Hermann Baas a:s(24 October 1838 – 10 November 1909) was a

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best known for his writings on

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. Baas was born in Bechtheim, in Rhenish Hesse, and studied medicine at the

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. He graduated in 1860, and practiced medicine and

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in various towns of Rhenish Hesse. He undertook research into a number of areas of medicine, including hearing, but became best known for his influential histories of medicine. He died in

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in 1909.

Literary works

* ''Grundriss der Geschichte der Medizin und des heilenden Standes'', 1876 * ''Die geschichtliche Entwicklung des ärztlichen Stands und der medizinischen Wissenschaften'', 1896

References

External links

* , 1889 translation by Henry Ebenezer Handerson of the ''Grundriss'', at

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1838 births 1909 deaths People from Alzey-Worms German medical historians 19th-century German physicians University of Giessen alumni German male non-fiction writers {{germany-historian-stub