Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch (March 16, 1788 – March 15, 1858) was a German obstetrician born in Marburg

Marburg

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...

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In 1806 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Marburg, becoming an associate professor of surgery

Surgery

Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

 in 1814. In 1817 he was appointed professor of obstetrics

Obstetrics

Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...

 at Marburg, where from 1820 to 1829 was director of the department of obstetrics. In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold

Adam Elias von Siebold

Adam Elias von Siebold was a German Gynecologist.- Life :He was the youngest son of Carl Caspar von Siebold . Siebold was professor of anatomy, surgery und midwifery of the University of Würzburg...

 (1775-1828) as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. He maintained this position until his death in 1858, and in 1835/36 served as university rector

Rector

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 in Berlin.

Among his better known students in Berlin were Carl Siegmund Franz Crede

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Berlin. In 1842 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1852 he became director of the "Berlin School of Midwives" and chief physician of the maternity division at the Berlin Charité...

 (1819-1892), Karl von Hecker (1827-1882) and Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze; sometimes spelled Bernhard Sigismund Schultze was a German obstetrician and gynecologist born in Freiburg im Breisgau...

(1827-1919). Following his death, he was succeeded in Berlin by Edward Arnold Martin (1809-1875).

During his career he was an editor of the following journals; Gemeinsame Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde (1825-34), Neue Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde (1834-53) and Monatsschrift für Geburtskunde (1853-58).

Selected publications

• Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde (1829); several editions
• Die theoretische und practische geburtskunde durch abbildungen erläutert, (1838)
• Das Geschlechtsleben des Weibes in physiologischer, pathologischer und therapeutischer Hinsicht, five volumes (1839–44)
• Atlas geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, mit Bezugnahme auf das Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde, (1841)
• Handbuch der Geburtskunde in alphabetischer Ordnung, four volumes w/A. Moser (1840–43)