Fredrick Willius


Fredrick Arthur Willius was a research cardiologist and the author of many hundreds of essays and no small number of books and textbooks in his field.

Family Information

Known to all as "F.A.," Willius was born to an upper class and well known family in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Gustav Willius, and his uncle, Ferdinand Willius, were German immigrants who had together founded the National German-American Bank of St. Paul. His mother, Emma Klausmeyer as the herself the daughter of William Klausmeyer, German immigrant and Director of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

List of works

Clinical electrocardiography
Clinical electrocardiograms; their interpretation and significance
Cardiac clinics
Cardiac classics; a collection of classic works on the heart and circulation, with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors
The medical history of Benjamin Franklin
A history of the heart and the circulation
Aphorisms of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, 1865–1939, and Dr. William James Mayo, 1861-1939
Henry Stanley Plummer, a diversified genius