Heinrich Häser

Heinrich Häser (15 October 1811 – 13 September 1885) was a German medical author.

Biography

He was born at Rome, the son of the musician August Ferdinand Häser. He studied medicine at the University of Jena, taught there from 1836 to 1849, then went to Greifswald, and in 1862 to Breslau.

Works

He edited:

• Gruner, Scriptores de Sudore Anglico (1847)
• Bibliotheca Epidemiographica (2nd ed., 1862)
• Repertorium für die gesamte Medizin (“Medical reports”; 1840–42)
• Archiv für die gesamte Medizin (“Medical archives”; 1840–49)

He wrote:

• Historisch-pathologische Untersuchungen (1839–41)
• Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der Volkskrankheiten (“A primer of the history of medicine and popular diseases”; 3rd ed., 1875–82)
• Geschichte der christlichen Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften (“History of Christian care for the sick and care givers”; 1857)
• Die Vaccination und ihre Gegner (“Vaccination and its opponents”; 1854)
• Buch der Bündth-Ertznei (“Book of Bündth-Ertznei”; 1868) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Grundriss der Geschichte der Medizin (“Outline of the history of medicine”; 1884)

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Häser, Heinrich". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.