Adolph Wilhelm Otto

Adolph Wilhelm Otto (born August 3, 1786 in Greifswald , † January 14, 1845 in Breslau ) was a German anatomist and university professor .

Life

Otto completed his medical studies at the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt and the University of Greifswald . He was promoted to Dr. med. did his doctorate and graduated the following year. He then worked as a prosector at the clinic in Frankfurt (Oder) , headed by Carl August Wilhelm Berends . He completed his habilitation in 1811 and was appointed associate professor .

After a study trip through Germany, the Netherlands and France , he became full professor of anatomy at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau, which was newly established after the Peace of Tilsit . In 1820 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1821 he was appointed to the Medical Council and a member of the Medical College for Silesia . In 1831 he was accepted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1836 he was appointed secret medical councilor . In the academic year 1838/39 Otto was rector of the University of Breslau.

Act

Otto's drawing of an infant suffering from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, 1841.

Otto published numerous articles and books on pathological anatomy and teratology . His textbook Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica (1841) contains, in addition to 600 other descriptions of malformations, the first clinical description of a newborn child suffering from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita .

The "Otto Chrobak pelvis" is a synonym for the protrusio acetabuli , a protrusion of the hip socket and head into the small pelvis. Otto described this deformation in 1824. The second part of the synonym goes back to the gynecologist Rudolf Chrobak .

Fonts

Monstrorum trium cerebro atque cranio destitutotum anatomica et physiologica disquisito . Greifswald 1808. (Dissertation, digitized version )
Monstrorum sex humanorum anat. Et physiol. Disquisito . 1811. (Habilitation thesis, digitized version )
Manual of the pathological anatomy of man and animals . Barth, Breslau 1814. ( digitized version )
Rare observations related to anatomy, physiology and pathology . Volume 1: Holäufer, Breslau 1816, Volume 2: Rücker, Berlin 1824. ( digitized version )
Directory of the anatomical specimen collection of the Kgl. Anatomy Institute in Breslau . Max, Breslau 1827. ( digitized version )
Pathological anatomy textbook . Breslau, 1841.
Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica. F. Girt, Breslau 1841.

literature

August Hirsch: Otto, Adolph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 744 f.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b August Hirsch: Otto, Adolph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 744 f.
↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
^ Leonard F. Peltier: The classic: A human monster with inwardly curved extremities. By Adolph Wilhelm Otto, 1841. In: Clinical orthopedics and related research. 194, 1985, pp. 4-5, PMID 3884208 . (Translation of the section on the topic from Otto's Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica with a short introduction.)
↑ Adolph Wilhelm Otto: Misalignment of the pan basin as a result of deforming osteoarthritis. In: Rare observations related to anatomy, physiology and pathology. Volume 2, A. Rücker, Berlin 1824. ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Otto, Adolph Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1845
Place of death	Wroclaw

[ADB-1] A ^b August Hirsch: Otto, Adolph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 744 f.

[2] Rector's speeches (HKM)

[3] Leonard F. Peltier: The classic: A human monster with inwardly curved extremities. By Adolph Wilhelm Otto, 1841. In: Clinical orthopedics and related research. 194, 1985, pp. 4-5, PMID 3884208 . (Translation of the section on the topic from Otto's Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica with a short introduction.)

[4] Adolph Wilhelm Otto: Misalignment of the pan basin as a result of deforming osteoarthritis. In: Rare observations related to anatomy, physiology and pathology. Volume 2, A. Rücker, Berlin 1824. ( digitized version )