Alexander Friedrich von Hueck
Alexander Friedrich von Hueck (born November 25, jul. / 7. December 1802 greg. In Tallinn , Governorate of Estonia , † July 16 . Jul / 28. July 1842 . Greg in Tartu , Governorate of Livonia ) was a German-Balt , physicians and author .
Life
His parents were the mayor of Reval Adam Johann von Hueck (1761-1829) and his wife Caroline, née Jencken (1776-1849). The agricultural scientist Carl von Hueck (1811–1889) was his brother.
He first went to the private school in Wetterstrand and then to the high school in Reval. He then studied medicine in Dorpat from 1821 to 1825 . There he received a gold medal for a work on the eye in 1823, after his dissertation on December 17, 1826 he received a scholarship for further training and went to Berlin and Heidelberg .
After his return he worked as a professor of anatomy from 1830 to 1838 at the Imperial University of Dorpat, as the successor to Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz . He was clearly occupied with the eye and brought anatomy to great esteem at the university. He was one of the first to systematically research how the eye compensates for head movements.
From 1840 to 1842, Hueck was president of the Estonian learned society .
He married Amalie Jencken on December 24, 1830 in Nissi .
Works
- Diss. Inaug. physiol.med. de mutationibus oculi internis respectu distantiae rerum ( digitized version )
- 1830, Seeing, ( digitized version )
- 1833, scaffolding of anatomy, ( digitized version )
- 1833, textbook on human anatomy, ( digitized version )
- 1833, On the study of anatomy: in three lectures, ( digitized version )
- 1838, The axis rotation of the eye, ( digitized version )
- 1840, On the Limits of Sight. Archives of Anatomy, Physiology, and Scientific Medicin, 82-97
- 1841, The movement of the crystal lens, ( digitized version )
literature
- Friedrich August Schmidt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Verlag von Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Weimar 1842, part 1, p. 540
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky , General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 2, Mitau 1827, p. 354
- Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 111, No. 94
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Alexander Friedrich von Hueck. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Petersburgische Zeitschrift , Volume 14, p. 71.
- ^ Friedrich Amelung : Festival album of the Estonian learned society for its 50th anniversary , Dorpat 1888.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hueck, Alexander Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval , Estonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1842 |
| Place of death | Dorpat , Livonia Governorate |