Adolf Pansch

Adolf Pansch

Adolf Georg Pansch (born March 2, 1841 in Eutin , † August 14, 1887 in the Kiel Fjord ) was a German anatomist and anthropologist . In 1869/70 he took part in the Second German North Polar Expedition .

Life

Adolf Pansch was born as the son of the later high school director Christian Pansch (1807-1901) in Eutin.

He attended the Eutin grammar school run by his father and from 1860 studied medicine and natural sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1862 he continued his medical studies in Berlin and finally finished it at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where he received his doctorate in 1864. Pansch passed the state examination in Oldenburg in 1865 , then became a prosector at the Anatomical Museum of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and completed his habilitation a year later at the medical faculty there as a private lecturer . On October 18, 1876, Adolf Pansch was appointed associate professor, but also retained his position as a prosector.

As an anatomist, Pansch was mainly concerned with the topography of the cerebral cortex . But he also published on the anatomy of the chest and the abdominal and pelvic organs .

In 1869/70 Pansch took part in the Second German North Polar Expedition as a biologist and doctor . On board the screw steamer Germania , he drove to East Greenland under Captain Carl Koldewey . In a hunting accident, he injured his arm, but nevertheless carried out an extensive scientific program. The animal and herbal preparations he brought with him were edited by Ernst Haeckel , Franz Buchenau , Wilhelm Focke , Karl Müller , Gregor Kraus , Otto Finsch , Alfred Newton , Eduard Oscar Schmidt , Reinhold Buchholz and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , among others . Pansch himself published results in the field of anthropology and described the climate and flora in East Greenland. Parts of the narrative travelogue also come from his pen.

In 1871, Adolf Pansch and the historian and archaeologist Heinrich Handelmann were called to Rendswühren , where peat cutters had found a well-preserved bog body . Pansch carried out the first scientific investigation of the man von Rendswühren , who is on display today in the permanent exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle . In 1873 Handelmann and Pansch published the most extensive catalog of bog corpses to date, which described 16 finds. Pansch was the first to subject bog bodies to a detailed anthropological assessment.

From 1877 until his untimely death, Adolf Pansch was the chairman of the Anthropological Association of Schleswig-Holstein. In this role he led the excavation of some barrows in Bornhöved , Gönnebek and Tarbek in 1883 and 1884. In addition to the pathologist Arnold Heller (1840–1913), Adolf Pansch was instrumental in the founding of the Kiel Museum of Ethnology by the Anthropological Association. He was also on the board of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein for many years .

Adolf Pansch was an avid sailor . Inspired by him, the first sailing regattas took place off Laboe as early as 1880 . On August 14, 1887 Pansch had a fatal accident when he sailed back to Kiel in his boat after such a race. A memorial stone in front of the "Fietzen und Tilly" house, where Pansch went on vacation with his family as the "first bathing guest" in the 1870s, still reminds us of his services to tourism in Laboe.

Cape Pansch on the island of Shannon , east of Greenland, is named after Adolf Pansch .

Works (selection)

• About the typical arrangement of furrows and convolutions on the cerebral hemispheres of humans and monkeys . In: Archiv für Anthropologie Vol. 3, 1868, pp. 227-257.
• Finds of bog bodies in Schleswig-Holstein , Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, Kiel 1873 (with Heinrich Handelmann).
• Anthropology . In: The second German north polar journey in the years 1869 and 1870 under the leadership of Captain Karl Koldewey , published by the Association for the German north polar journey in Bremen, second volume: Scientific results , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874, pp. 144–156.
• Climate and plant life in East Greenland . In: The second German north polar voyage in 1869 and 1870 under the leadership of Captain Karl Koldewey , published by the Association for the German north polar voyage in Bremen, second volume: Scientific results , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874, pp. 5-11.
• Furrows and ridges on the human cerebrum , Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1879.
• Outline of human anatomy , Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1881.
• Anatomical lectures for doctors and older students , Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1884.

literature

• Walther Flemming : Adolf Pansch . In: Anatomischer Anzeiger Vol. 2, 1887, pp. 719–721.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Pansch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Adolf Pansch  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Kössler: Pansch, Johann Heinrich Christian . In: Personal Lexicon of 19th Century Teachers (PDF; 4.0 MB). Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications, volume: Paalhorn – Pyrkosch, Giessen University Library, Giessen Electronic Library 2008
2. ^ ^{A b} Eduard Alberti: Pansch, Adolf . In: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , Second Section M – Z, Academic Bookstore, Kiel 1868, p. 155.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Julius Pagel : Pansch, Adolf . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp.  1255–1256 .
4. ↑ Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665 to 1915 , Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 1916, p. 73 .
5. ^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor - The prehistoric and early historical moor corpses from northwestern Europe . Drents Museum / Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , p. 50 f . (Dutch: Vereeuwigd in het veen .).
6. ↑ Thomas Brock: Moor corpses. Witnesses of past millennia . In: Archeology in Germany, special issue . Theiss, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 3-8062-2205-3 , p. 23 . ( Excerpt ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF 1.7 MB) 
7. ↑ Heinrich Handelmann in the correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory Vol. 19, No. 2, 1888, p. 13
8. ^ Johanna Mestorf : Professor Pansch's excavations in the Bornhöved parish . In: Mittheilungen the Anthropological Association in Schleswig-Holstein 4/1891, pp. 3-16.
9. ^ Museum für Völkerkunde - Cultures of the South Seas in the information system on collections and museums at German universities (see “History”), accessed on November 7, 2014
10. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of the Laboer Regatta Verein , accessed on November 6, 2014
11. ↑ C. Saager: Displaced memorial stones have found new places , Parish Laboe Journal of May 22, 2008, accessed on November 6, 2014.
12. ↑ Cape Pansch . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 , accessed November 7, 2013.