Wilhelm Baum (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Elbląg, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
About Wilhelm Baum (surgeon)
- Wilhelm Baum (10 September 1799 – 6 September 1883) was a German surgeon born in Elbing. He studied medicine in Königsberg, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1822.
- At the University of Göttingen, he was influenced by Konrad Martin Langenbeck (1776–1855), Karl Gustav Himly (1772–1837) and Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759–1822).
- After graduation, he spent a year as a surgical assistant to Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787–1850) in Berlin, followed by several years of study in Austria, Italy, France and the British Isles (London, Edinburgh, Dublin).
- In Paris he attended lectures and clinics by Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766–1842) and Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874).
- During his years of travel, he pursued artistic interests in addition to furthering his studies in medicine. In 1827 he returned to Berlin as a general practitioner, occasionally assisting his close friend Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847) with surgical operations.
- Afterwards he relocated to Danzig as chief surgeon at the municipal hospital.
- In Danzig he greatly distinguished himself during the cholera epidemic of 1831.
- In 1841 he undertook a research trip to Paris, where he studied lithotripsy with Jean Civiale (1792–1867) and Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles (1798–1860), afterwards becoming a professor of surgery at the University of Greifswald (1842).
- Later in his career he was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Göttingen.
- Baum was an important influence to the career of Theodor Billroth (1829–1894). Although considered a good teacher, he was not known for his writings.
- He was one of the first surgeons in Germany to perform tracheotomies for treatment of croup (1848 at Greifswald, five cases).
- He is also credited for providing an early mention of human pulmonary aspergillosis.
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