Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch

Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch (16 March 1788 to 15 March 1858) was a German obstetrician born in Marburg. He earned his medical doctorate at the University of Marburg in 1806, became an associate professor of surgery there in 1814, and in 1817 was appointed professor of obstetrics, directing the obstetrics department from 1820 to 1829. In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, was university rector in 1835 and 1836, and led the clinic until his death. Among his better known students in Berlin were Carl Credé, Karl von Hecker and Bernhard Sigmund Schultze, and Eduard Arnold Martin succeeded him. He also edited the journals Gemeinsame Zeitschrift fuer Geburtskunde, Neue Zeitschrift fuer Geburtskunde and Monatsschrift fuer Geburtskunde.