Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch

In 1806 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Marburg, becoming an associate professor of surgery in 1814.

In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold (1775–1828) as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, serving as university rector in 1835/36.

He would remain as director of the obstetrical clinic in Berlin until his death.

Among his better known students in Berlin were Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819–1892), Karl von Hecker (1827–1882) and Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827–1919).

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