Edward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841. For much of his medical career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital in London as a physician and lecturer. Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine.

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  • Edward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841. For much of his medical career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital in London as a physician and lecturer. Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine. He was closely involved regarding the training of nurses and treatment of the poor, and had a keen interest concerning treatment of epilepsy and other neurological disorders. In 1858, he devised an aesthesiometer, a device for measuring tactile sensitivity of the skin. He wrote several books, and was responsible for the translation of works by Carl Rokitansky and Moritz Heinrich Romberg from German into English. In 1886 Sir Edward Henry Sieveking was knighted by Queen Victoria.
  • Sir Edward Henry Sieveking war ein englischer Mediziner. Edward Sieveking studierte an der Universität Berlin bei Johannes Peter Müller, am University College London und an der Universität Edinburgh. 1841 promovierte er in Edinburgh. Von 1842 bis 1846 war Edward Sieveking in Hamburg als Arzt tätig. Im Stadtteil St. Georg begründete er mit seiner Tante Amalie Sieveking ein Kinderkrankenhaus. Von 1847 bis 1866 war er in London am Look Hospital und anschließend als Oberarzt am St. Marys Hospital tätig. Ab 1863 war er Leibarzt des späteren Königs Edward VII. und ab 1873 der Königin Victoria. 1886 wurde er in den Adelsstand erhoben. 1858 erfand er das Aesthesiometer.
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  • Edward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841. For much of his medical career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital in London as a physician and lecturer. Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine.
  • Sir Edward Henry Sieveking war ein englischer Mediziner. Edward Sieveking studierte an der Universität Berlin bei Johannes Peter Müller, am University College London und an der Universität Edinburgh. 1841 promovierte er in Edinburgh. Von 1842 bis 1846 war Edward Sieveking in Hamburg als Arzt tätig. Im Stadtteil St. Georg begründete er mit seiner Tante Amalie Sieveking ein Kinderkrankenhaus. Von 1847 bis 1866 war er in London am Look Hospital und anschließend als Oberarzt am St.
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