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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.

    Bibliography

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Die Verletzungen und Erkrankungen des Rückenmarks und der Wirbelsäule.
    Handbuch der praktischen Chirurgie. 1902. 211 pages.

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Die Behandlung Der Tuberkulosen Gelenkerkrankungen Und Der Kalten Abscesse.
    1897. 122 pages.

    Adolf Richard Henle and Johann von Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905):
    The Conservative Treatment of Tubercular Joint Disease and Cold Abscess: As Carried Out by Prof. J. Von Mikulicz. E. & S. Livingstone, 1900. 101 pages

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Gynäkologische Diagnostik. Berlin, 1905.

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Frauenkrankheiten und Geburtshilfe. In: Ferdinand Adolf Gumprecht (1864-1947), Albert Cramer, Karl Wittmaack (1876-1972), Gustav Pfarrius and O. Rigler: Lehrbuch der Arbeiter-Versicherungsmedizin. Leipzig : Barth, 1913. 643 pages.

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Künstliche Fehlgeburt und künstliche Unfruchtbarkeit. Berlin, 1918.

    Adolf Richard Henle:
    Krankheiten der äusseren Geschlechtsteile und der Vagina. In Julius Schwalbe’s (1863-1930): Diagnostische und therapeutische Irrtümer und deren Verhütung. Leipzig, Georg Thieme, 1921.

    Isidor Fischer (1869-1943), publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
    Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932.

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