Bernhard Heine

Bernhard Heine July 31, 1846, Glockenthal near Thun was a German physician, bone specialist and the inventor of the osteotome, a medical tool for cutting bones.

Bernhard Heine was born on August 20, 1800 as the son of a tanner in Schramberg. At the age of ten years he was apprenticed to his uncle Johann Georg Heine in Wrzburg as an orthopaedic mechanic. Without any enrolment he later attended lectures in medicine at the University of Wrzburg. After a number of journeys he took over his own department in his uncles orthopaedic institute. When Johann Georg moved to the Netherlands in 1829 Bernhard together with his cousin Joseph Heine became the head of the Wrzburg institution. In 1837 Bernhard Heine married his cousin Anna Heine .

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