Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth (1772 to 1835) was a German physician and university teacher born in Stuttgart. He studied medicine at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart and then attended lectures by Antonio Scarpa and Johann Peter Frank at Pavia. He travelled to the United States with his father and practised medicine for several months in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1797 he became professor of anatomy, physiology, surgery and obstetrics at the University of Tubingen, where in 1805 he founded an in-patient clinic and in 1822 was appointed chancellor of the university. He specialised in forensic medicine, published an 1806 treatise on the subject for court physicians and surgeons, and was regarded as one of the leading clinical physicians of the early nineteenth century. He died in Tubingen in 1835.