Christian Bäumler


Christian Gottfried Heinrich Bäumler was a German physician known for work involving infectious diseases.

Background

Bäumler studied medicine at several universities, earning his doctorate at the University of Erlangen in 1860. From 1863 to 1866 he was resident medical officer at the "German Hospital" in London, and from 1866 to 1872 was an assistant physician at the German Hospital and at the Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. In 1866 he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London. After his return to Germany, he served as a professor at Erlangen and later at the University of Freiburg.

Publications

In 1870 Bäumler published an English translation of Felix von Niemeyer's Klinische Vorträge über die Lungenschwindsucht as "Clinical lectures on pulmonary consumption". Other noted works by Bäumler include: