Karl David Wilhelm Busch (5 January 1826 in

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– 24 November 1881 in

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) was a German surgeon.

Biography

He was born in

, and studied at the

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, where he was a student of Johannes Peter Müller and

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. He received his doctorate in 1848. In 1855, he was appointed professor of surgery at

, and afterwards acted as consulting surgeon general in the army in 1866 and during the Franco-Prussian War. In 1867 he became director of the Surgical Clinic of the University of Bonn (german: Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik Bonn), the world's first in

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. Among his students at Bonn was

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Joseph Doutrelepont.

Works

* ''Chirurgische Beobachtungen, gesammelt in der Klinik zu Berlin'' (Surgical observations gathered in the clinic at Berlin; 1854). * ''Lehrbuch der Chirurgie'' (Textbook of surgery; 2 vols., 1857–69).* "This article contains translations from the article on Karl David Wilhelm Busch in the German Wikipedia".

References

1826 births 1881 deaths Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn German surgeons {{Germany-med-bio-stub