Alfonso Corti

Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti

Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (born June 15, 1822 in Gambarana ( Lombardy ), † October 2, 1876 in Corvino San Quirico (Lombardy)) was an Italian anatomist .

Life

Corti grew up with his brother, the later diplomat Luigi Córti , in a noble family in the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont . He studied medicine from 1841 at the University of Pavia with Bartolomeo Panizza and Mauro Rusconi and was strongly influenced by the anatomist Antonio Scarpa . In 1847 he went to the University of Vienna , where he completed his medical degree, and then worked for Josef Hyrtl . In 1850/1851 he moved to Rudolf Albert Kölliker at the University of Würzburg , where he began to study the inner ear of mammals . In 1851 he discovered the actual receptor area in the inner ear, the organ of Corti named after him at a suggestion by Kölliker in 1854 .

Marchese (Graf) Corti was a member of numerous European scientific societies. In 1854 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

• Walter Kley: Alfonso Corti (1822–1876) - Discoverer of the Sensory End Organ of Hearing in Würzburg . In: Journal for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and its Related Specialties . tape 48 , 1986, ISSN  0301-1569 , pp. 61-67 , doi : 10.1159 / 000275847 .
• Helmut Wyklicky, G. Schmidt: About Alfonso Corti (1822–1876), some of his biographers and his relationship to Vienna. In: Laryngol. Rhinol. Otol. Volume 70, 1991, pp. 161-163.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Brömer: Corti, Count Alfonso. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 275.
2. ^ Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert Koelliker and his scientific contacts abroad. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 2, 1984, pp. 101–115; here: p. 111.
3. ↑ Member entry of Alfonso Giacomo Corti at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 24, 2017.