Fredrick Willius

Fredrick Arthur Willius(born November 24, 1888 in Saint Paul, Minnesota d. 1972) was a research cardiologist and the author of many hundreds of essays and no small number of books and textbooks in his field.

Family Information

Known to all as "F.A.," Willius was born to an upper class and well known family in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Gustav Willius, and his uncle, Ferdinand Willius, were German immigrants who had together founded the National German-American Bank of St. Paul. His mother, Emma Klausmeyer as the herself the daughter of William Klausmeyer, German immigrant and Director of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

List of works

Clinical electrocardiography (1922)

Clinical electrocardiograms; their interpretation and significance (1929)

Cardiac clinics (1936)

Cardiac classics; a collection of classic works on the heart and circulation, with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors (1941)

The medical history of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) (1942)

A history of the heart and the circulation (1948)

Aphorisms of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, 1865-1939, and Dr. William James Mayo, 1861-1939 (collected by) (1951)

Henry Stanley Plummer, a diversified genius (1960)