Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner

German physician

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1798

Place of Birth: Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1886

Profession: writer, physician, university teacher, pathologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (21 October 1798 in Pforzheim – 11 December 1886 in Baden-Baden) was a German physician and pathologist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, obtaining his medical degree in 1818.
Following graduation, he attended to hospitals in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1820 was assigned as a regimental physician in Rastatt.
In 1822 he was associated with an artillery brigade at Karlsruhe, and during the following year, he visited hospitals in Paris and London.
From 1824 to 1862 he was a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Freiburg.
During his career, he also served as a privy councilor to the Grand Duchy of Baden.In the field of embryology, his Bildungskugeltheorie (1830) is considered to be a precursor to the cell theory proposed by Theodor Schwann.