August by Froriep

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August von Froriep (born September 10, 1849 in Weimar , † October 11, 1917 in Tübingen ) was a German anatomist.

Life

August Froriep came from a medical family - he was the son of the anatomist Robert Friedrich Froriep (1804–1861) and the grandson of the surgeon and publisher Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep (1779–1847).

Froriep studied medicine in Göttingen , Tübingen and Leipzig . 1869/70 he was Konkneipant the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . Since he had once fought for the Saxon colors, he received the corps ribbon after leaving Göttingen .

After the state examination he worked as assistant to Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831-1892) in Leipzig. Later he worked as a prosector in Tübingen, where he finally received a professorship for anatomy . He was mainly concerned with the morphology and development of the head and the spine. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1906 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1911 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Shortly before his death, he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In 1911, Froriep claimed in a widely acclaimed publication ( The skull of Friedrich von Schiller and the poet's burial place ) that he had found the real skull of Friedrich Schiller . With this he meant to end the decades-long dispute about the authenticity of the skull, which until then was taken to be Schiller's. However, recent studies have shown that the skull he found is the skull of Luise von Göchhausen , a lady-in-waiting of Anna Amalia.

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Fonts (selection)

  • Anatomy for artists. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1880 (digitized version)
  • Anatomy for artists. Brief textbook on anatomy, mechanics, facial expressions and proportions of the human body. Leipzig: Barth, 1913 ( archive.org ).
  • The skull of Friedrich von Schiller and the poet's burial place. Leipzig: Barth, 1913.
  • Skull, death mask and living face of the court maid Luise von Göchhausen. Leipzig: Barth, 1917.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 87.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. August by Froriep. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Froriep, August of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1917
Place of death Tübingen