August Carl Bock

August Carl Bock - also August Carl Bock - (born March 25, 1782 in Magdeburg , † January 30, 1833 in Leipzig ') was a German anatomist.

Career

Bock was the son of poor parents, raised by his stepfather, a surgeon, in Genthin . He later came to Halle and Leipzig as a medical assistant. He drew attention to himself by his interest in anatomy was 1814 Prosektor the Anatomical Theater at the University of Leipzig and 1815 in Erfurt as a doctor of medicine doctorate . He declined a call to Koenigsberg out of gratitude to his teaching place. He worked in the position of prosector in Leipzig until his death.

As a medical writer and Morgagnis's solidarity pathologist , his focus was on descriptive representations of anatomical objects.

His son was the pathological anatomist Carl Ernst Bock .

Fonts

Description of the fifth pair of nerves and their connections with other nerves, especially with the ganglion system. 1817
Handbook of the practical anatomy of the human body, or a complete description of it according to the natural position of its parts. 1820
Representation of the veins of the human body: according to their structure, distribution and course. 1823 (General Encyclopedia of Anatomy, Volume 5)
Representation of the brain, the spinal cord and the sensory tools: as well as the human body in general according to its external scope for teaching doctors, surgeons and for studying for budding mediciners. 1824.
Representation of the organs of respiration, circulation, digestion, urine and reproduction. 1825
The spinal cord nerves according to their entire course, distributions and connections. 1827
Representation of the suction arteries of the human body, according to their structure, distribution and course etc. etc. etc. 1828
[Ed.] Surgical-anatomical tables, or illustration of the parts of the human body in relation to surgical diseases and operations, with a Latin and German explanation. 1833
Judicial Sections of the Human Body

literature

August Hirsch : Bock, Aug. Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 762.

Web links

Literature by and about August Carl Bock in the catalog of the German National Library
August Carl Bock in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Overview of courses held by August Carl Bock at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1820 to winter semester 1832)

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Eleventh year, 1833 (1835). Pp. 79-81.
^ Gundolf Keil : Review of: Florian Mildenberger: Medical instruction for the bourgeoisie. Medicinal cultures in the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1853–1944). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012 (= medicine, society and history. Supplement 45), ISBN 978-3-515-10232-2 . In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 306-313, here: p. 308.

personal data
SURNAME	Bock, August Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bock, August Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1833
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Cf. New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Eleventh year, 1833 (1835). Pp. 79-81.

[2] Gundolf Keil : Review of: Florian Mildenberger: Medical instruction for the bourgeoisie. Medicinal cultures in the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1853–1944). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012 (= medicine, society and history. Supplement 45), ISBN 978-3-515-10232-2 . In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 306-313, here: p. 308.