Heinrich Braun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinrich Braun

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1862

Place of Birth: Rawicz, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Apr-1934

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Heinrich Braun

  • Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (January 1, 1862 – April 26 1934) was a German surgeon remembered for his work in the field of anaesthesiology.
  • He was a native of Rawitsch, Province of Posen (today called Rawicz, Poland). Braun attended the Kreuzschule and the Vitzhumsches Gymnasium in Dresden, completing his Abitur in 1881.
  • He studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg, Greifswald and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1887.
  • From 1891 to 1905 he worked at various hospitals in Leipzig, becoming an associate professor at the University of Leipzig in 1905.
  • The following year he was appointed chief surgeon and medical director of the Royal Saxonian Hospital in Zwickau, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1923.
  • Construction of the "Krankenstift Zwickau" in 1921 was based on his plans and recommendations. Braun made important contributions in the development of general, local and regional anaesthesia.
  • In 1901 he devised an apparatus for mixed-gas anaesthesia, and in 1903 recommended the addition of adrenalin as a vasoconstrictor to local anaesthetics.
  • In 1905 he introduced procaine into clinical medicine, an anaesthetic that had previously been synthesized by Alfred Einhorn (1856-1917).

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