Henle Adolf Richard
| Born |
1884-09-26 |
| Died |
1936 |
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German obstetrician and gynaecologist, born September 26, 1864, Berlin; died 1936.
Biography of Henle Adolf Richard
Adolf Richard Henle studied in Greifswald, Freiburg, and Würzburg graduating M.D. in Greifswald 1896. He was assistant to Paul Albert Grawitz (1850-1932) in Greifswald and then under Ernst Franke (1857-1925) and Theodor Rumpel (1862-1923) in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Following thihe concentrated his efforts in obstetrics and gynaecology, working as assistant at the Berlin university women’s clinic under Robert Michaelis von Olshausen (1835-1915), and in 1907 became ordinarius in Greifswald, 1910 in Jena.
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