August Rauber

August Rauber

August Rauber (* 22. March 1841 in Obermoschel in Pfalz, † February 16 ^{. Jul} / 1 March  1917 ^greg. In Dorpat, now Tartu ) was a German anatomist .

Rauber studied in Munich and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. After his habilitation in 1869, he went to Basel as a prosector in 1872 and then to Leipzig with Wilhelm His . In 1873 he became an associate professor .

In 1886 he became a full professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical institute at the University of Dorpat .

Works

• Vater's corpuscles of the ligament and periosteal nerves and their relationship to the so-called muscle senses. 1865.
• Investigations into the occurrence and importance of the Father's corpuscles. Munich 1867.
• Elasticity and strength of bones. Leipzig 1876.
• About the origin of milk and the nutrition of the fruit in general. 1879.
• Prehistory of man. 2 volumes. Leipzig 1884.
• Homo sapiens ferus: or the conditions of the wild and their significance for science, politics and schools. 1885.
• On the importance of scientific anatomy. 1886.
• Crystal regeneration atlas. 4 volumes. 1896/97.
• The tasks of life. 1896.
• Human anatomy textbook. 2 volumes. 1870. (5th edition. 1897/98 - continued by Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch )

literature

• IaIa Kasmel: Role of Professor August Rauber's Institute of Anatomy in the development of anthropology in Tartu (former Imperial Derpt / Yuriev) University in 1886–1911 . (Article in Russian) In: Morfologiia. 127, 2005, pp. 90-93.
• Sabine Brauckmann: August Rauber (1841-1917): from the primitive streak to cellular mechanics. In: The International journal of developmental biology. 50, 2006, pp. 439-449.

Web links

• Rauber, August. In: Julius Leopold Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 1347.
• Overview of August Rauber's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1873 to summer semester 1886)
• August Rauber in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• The old anatomical theater in Tartu opens the wax figure of the famous anatomy professor August Rauber , Õhtuleht , April 21, 2009 (Estonian)
• Personal collection with digitized works University of Tartu