Heinrich August Wrisberg

Heinrich August Wrisberg (20 June 1739 – 29 March 1808) was an anatomist. He also published under the Latinized version of his name as Henricus Augustus Wrisberg.

Heinrich Wrisberg
Heinrich August Wrisberg (1739-1808)
Born	20 June 1739 Sankt Andreasberg, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Died	29 March 1808 (aged 68) Göttingen, Kingdom of Westphalia
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Known for	Wrisberg cartilages Wrisberg ganglion
Scientific career
Fields	Anatomist and gynaecologist
Institutions	University of Göttingen
Doctoral students	Justus Christian Loder
Other notable students	Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Education

He obtained his MD in 1763 at the University of Göttingen with a thesis entitled: De Respiratione Prima Nervo Phrenico Et Calore Animali: Pavca Disserit Et Simvl Vicarias Anatomiam Profitendi Operas Ad Diem XXIV. Octobris Aperiendas Indicit.

Career

He was a professor of medicine and obstetrics. Wrisberg studied the sympathetic nervous system and described the Wrisberg ganglion of the cardiac plexus. He also wrote a text on hernias.

The cuneiform cartilages are sometimes called the "Wrisberg cartilages".^[1]

There are two nerves known as the nerve of Wrisberg.