Louis Waldenburg (31 July 1837 – 14 April 1881) was a German physician who specialized in diseases of the chest and throat. He developed several instruments including an esophagoscope and an angiometer. He served as a professor at the Charité hospital in Berlin from 1871.
Biography.
Waldenburg was born in Filehne, Posen. He graduated from the University of Berlin (M.D. 1860) with a thesis titled "De origine et structura membranarum, quae in tubercullis capsulisque verminosis involucrum praebent". After a postgraduate course at Heidelberg he established himself in Berlin as a specialist in chest and throat diseases. From 1864 to 1868 he co-edited the "Allgemeine Medizinische Central-Zeitung" "(General Medical Center Newspaper)". In 1865 he earned the title of Privatdozent at Berlin University. In 1868 he designed a endoscope for examining the larynx and esophagus which he adapted with a mirror and telescoping tube later. From 1868 until his death he edited the "(Berlin Clinical Weekly)". In 1871 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1877 department physician, at the Charité hospital in Berlin.
Among Waldenburg's many works:
Waldenburg died in Berlin on 14 April 1881.
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