Friedrich Hensing Explained

Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing
Birth Date:	17 April 1719
Birth Place:	Giessen, Germany
Death Place:	Giessen, Germany
Nationality:	German
Fields:	Medicine ،Anatomy
Workplaces:	University of Giessen
Known For:	The phrenicocolic ligament is called Hensing's ligament after his death.

Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing (17 April 1719 – 9 November 1745), born in Giessen, was a German professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Giessen.^[1]

The phrenicocolic ligament is called Hensing's ligament after him.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Hensing was a son of John Thomas Hensing, and his wife is Maria Juliana, the daughter of Friedrich Nitsch, the Hessian Court Assessors at the Law Faculty and Vice-Chancellor of University of Giessen.^[3]

Publications

• Dissertatio Inauguralis De Peritonaeo. Lammers, 1742.
• Denkmahl der Liebe. Hammer, 1744, 4 Seiten

Notes and References

1. Web site: Friedrich W. Hensing. TheFreeDictionary.com.
2. Web site: Hensing ligament. TheFreeDictionary.com.
3. Donald B. Tower: Hensing: Der erste Hirnchemiker. Kurzfassung des Buches: Donald B. Tower: Hensing, 1719 - An Account of the First Chemical Examination of the Brain and the Discovery of Phosphorus Therein. Set against the background of Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A Source Book in the History of Neurochemistry. New York 1983. Die Übersetzung der englischen Kurzfassung besorgte Jost Benedum, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.