Adolph Christian Heinrich Henke (13 April 1775 in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

– 8 August 1843) was a German physician and

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known for his work in medical forensics. He was father-in-law to

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Rudolf Wagner (1805-1864). Following studies at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he continued his education at the

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, where one of his instructors was

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Lorenz von Crell (1744-1816). Afterwards, he studied medicine with surgeon August Gottlieb Richter (1742-1812) and

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Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759-1822) at the

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, subsequently receiving his doctorate in 1799 at Helmstedt. In 1805 he became an associate professor of medicine at the

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, where in 1814, he became a professor of

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and state

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Selected writings

* ''Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie'', 1806 - Textbook of general pathology. * ''Handbuch zur Erkenntniss und Heilung der Kinderkrankheiten'' - Textbook involving knowledge and cure of childhood illnesses, 1809. * ''Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin'' (numerous editions) - Textbook of

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. * ''Darstellung des Feldzuges der Verbündeten gegen Napoleon im Jahr 1814 I, Feldzug der grosen, der schlesischen und der Nord-Armee in Frankreich'', 1814 – Portrayal of the campaign of the allies against

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in 1814, the Great Campaign, the Silesian and the Northern Army in France. * ''Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der gerichtlichen Medicin, als Erläuterungen zu dem Lehrbuche der gerichtlichen Medicin'', 1815-1834 – Essays from the field of legal medicine as explanations to the textbook of medical forensics.IDREF.fr
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Henke, Adolph 1775 births 1843 deaths German pharmacologists Forensic pathologists Physicians from Braunschweig Physicians from the Duchy of Brunswick Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Technical University of Braunschweig alumni University of Helmstedt alumni University of Göttingen alumni