Edward Morwitz
Edward Morwitz (12 June 1815 Danzig, Prussia – 13 December 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a physician and inventor in Germany and a newspaper publisher and physician in the United States. Biography Germany Morwitz was the son of a wealthy merchant. He studied Semitic languages, Oriental literature, philosophy, theology, and finally medicine at the universities of University of Halle, Halle, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin. In 1841, he received the degree of M.D. from Berlin and was made first assistant of the Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Hufeland Clinic there. In 1843, Morwitz made a tour of parts of Germany, France, and Switzerland. On returning to Prussia, he took up his residence in the town of Conitz, where he practised his profession and his specialty in the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. So successful he was at Conitz that he also started and supported a hospital there for the poor. He began writing his ''Geschicht ...
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