Louis Waldenburg

Louis Waldenburg (31 July 1837 – 14 April 1881) was a German physician who specialized in diseases of the chest and throat.

1860) with a thesis titled "De origine et structura membranarum, quae in tubercullis capsulisque verminosis involucrum praebent".

After a postgraduate course at Heidelberg he established himself in Berlin as a specialist in chest and throat diseases.

In 1868 he designed a endoscope for examining the larynx and esophagus which he adapted with a mirror and telescoping tube later.

In 1871 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1877 department physician, at the Charité hospital in Berlin.