Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner


Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner was a German physician and pathologist.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, obtaining his medical degree in 1818. Following graduation, he attended to hospitals in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1820 was assigned as a regimental physician in Rastatt. In 1822 he was associated with an artillery brigade at Karlsruhe, and during the following year, he visited hospitals in Paris and London. From 1824 to 1862 he was a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Freiburg. During his career, he also served as a privy councilor to the Grand Duchy of Baden.
In the field of embryology, his Bildungskugeltheorie is considered to be a precursor to the cell theory proposed by Theodor Schwann.

Selected published works