an anatomist. He also published under the Latinized version of his name as Henricus Augustus Wrisberg. He obtained his MD in 1763 at the University of Göttingen. 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". There are two nerves known as the nerve of Wrisberg.
