Gottfried Welsch was a German physician who was born in Leipzig

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. In 1644 he became a professor of anatomy

Anatomy

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 at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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, and afterwards a professor of physiology

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 (1647), pathology

Pathology

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 (1662) and therapy

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 (1668). He held the title of Stadtphysikus in Leipzig, and in 1665 became rector

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 at the University of Leipzig.

Welsch was one of the founders of German forensic medicine, and remembered for introducing fundamental criteria for evaluation of fatal wounds and poisonings. His best known written work in forensics was the 1660 Rational one vulnerum lethalium judicium.