Albert Otto Baur

Albert Otto Baur (born September 28, 1834 in Tübingen , † May 1868 in Donndorf ) was a German physician, physiologist and comparative anatomist and zoologist .

Life

Albert Otto Baur was one of the two sons of the Tübingen theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur and his wife Emilie (1802–1839), née Becher, a daughter of the Stuttgart court doctor Gottlob Benjamin Becher (1778–1858). The later rector of the Tübingen grammar school Ferdinand Baur (1825–1889) was his brother. His sister Emilie Caroline (1823-1904) married the theologian and philosopher Eduard Zeller in 1847 .

He studied from 1852 to 1857 at the University of Tübingen and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Medical, sparked a price task of Tuebingen Medical School and was 1858 in Tübingen Dr. med. PhD .

He then worked as a volunteer assistant and temporary representative of a scientific assistant position at the Anatomical Institute in Berlin, undertook a study visit to the Adriatic Sea in Trieste in 1860 and 1861 with a Blumenbach travel grant , completed his habilitation in anatomy in Tübingen in spring 1861 and then worked as a private lecturer in Tübingen . On March 4, 1864, he became a prosector at the Anatomical and Physiological Institute of the University of Erlangen and subsequently worked as a private lecturer in anatomy in Erlangen.

Albert Otto Baur scientific detail the worm - type Entoconcha mirabilis J.Müller , 1852, from the family of eulimidae explored as endoparasite in the body cavity of synaptidae lives.

Albert Otto Baur was elected member ( matriculation number 2006 ) of the Leopoldina on November 25, 1863 with the academic surname Joh. Müller II . The choice of his academic nickname was reminiscent of the physician, physiologist and comparative anatomist or zoologist Johannes Peter Müller . In 1864 he became a member of the Physico-Medical Society in Erlangen .

He died in 1868 in the St. Gilgenberg Asylum , a private sanatorium for men with nervous and mental disorders in Donndorf, a district of Eckersdorf near Bayreuth.

Fonts

The development of the binding substance . Laupp, Tübingen 1858 ( digitized version )
About Synapta digitata garbage. and their suspected parasites . In: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From the year 1862. Berlin 1863
- I. The attachment of the snail tube to the head of the synapta , pp. 187–192 ( digital copy )
- II. About the attachment of the snail tube to the intestine , pp. 192–193 ( digitized version )
- III. The youth forms of the Synapta digitata garbage. , Pp. 193–198 ( digitized version )
Contributions to the natural history of the Synapta digitata . Three papers. Negotiations of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists, Volume 31, E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden 1864
- First treatise. On the anatomy of the synapta digitata . P. 1–51 ( digitized version )
- Second treatise. Metamorphosis and development of the synapta digitata . P. 1–60 ( digitized version )
- Third treatise. The intestinal snail (Helicosyrinx parasita) in the body cavity of the Synapta digitata . P. 1–119 ( digitized version )
Anatomy of a two-headed, three-armed, three-legged female double abortion . In: Archive for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine, Leipzig 1867, pp. 173–336 ( digitized version )

literature

Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, list of members according to the chronological order of their entry from 1860 to December 31, 1887, p. 197 ( archive.org ).
Renate Wittern (Ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743 - 1960 , Part 2: Medical Faculty , Erlanger Research Special Series Vol. 9, edit. by Astrid Ley, Erlangen 1999, p. 10 ISBN 3-930357-30-5 .

Web links

Member entry of Albert Otto Baur in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Literature by and about Albert Otto Baur in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Notes and individual references

^ Wilhelm Behn (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 7th issue. In commission at Frommann in Jena, Dresden 1871, p. 50 ( archive.org ).
^ Carl Gustav Carus (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 4th issue. E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden 1865, p. 67 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Baur, Albert Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician, physiologist and comparative anatomist or zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 1868
Place of death	Donndorf

[1] Wilhelm Behn (ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 7th issue. In commission at Frommann in Jena, Dresden 1871, p. 50 ( archive.org ).

[2] Carl Gustav Carus (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 4th issue. E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden 1865, p. 67 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).