Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich

German physician

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1798

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1857

Profession: physician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich (2 September 1798 in Roßtal – 6 December 1857 in Ansbach) was a German physician.
He was a brother-in-law to archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach who married his sister Henriette. From 1817 to 1821, he studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, obtaining his doctorate with a dissertation titled Tubercula in cerebro reperta.
Following graduation, he worked as a physician in the cities of Roth and Nuremberg.
From 1824 onward, he maintained a medical practice in Ansbach.Heidenreich notably took part in the autopsy of Kaspar Hauser, following the latter's mysterious death in December 1833.
As a result of his findings, he published the treatise Kaspar Hauser's Verwundung, Krankheit und Leichenöffnung ("Kaspar Hauser's wounds, illness and autopsy").