Carl Bergmann (medical doctor)

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Carl Bergmann (born May 18, 1814 in Göttingen , † April 30, 1865 in Geneva ; full name: Carl Georg Lucas Christian Bergmann , also: Karl Georg Lucas Christian Bergmann ) was a German anatomist and physiologist . He coined the terms ' homoiotherm ' ("evenly warm") and ' poikilotherm ' ("alternating warmth") and in 1847 set up Bergmann's rule , which was later named after him .

Life

Carl Bergmann was the son of the Göttingen lawyer and professor Friedrich Christian Bergmann (1785–1845) and his wife Henriette Christine, nee. Mejer. After graduating from high school in Holzminden in 1832, he studied medicine and natural sciences at the universities of Göttingen and Würzburg from 1832 . In Göttingen he was promoted to Dr. med. doctoral thesis De placentae foetalis resorptione .

In 1839 he completed his habilitation and worked as a private lecturer in medicine for physiology, comparative anatomy and forensic medicine. From 1840 he was assistant for the comparative anatomical collection at Rudolf Wagner . In 1843 he was appointed associate professor in Göttingen. In 1847 he published the work on the relationship between the heat economy of animals and their size in the Göttingen studies . This regular relationship between heat balance and body size in animals was named after him - Bergmann's rule. In 1846 he accompanied Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen and Robert Bunsen on a research trip to Iceland.

From 1852 to 1865 he was full professor of medicine / anatomy and director of the anatomical institute at the University of Rostock . In 1861 he received the title of senior medical officer. He was also director of the Anthropotomic Museum and the Zootomic-Physiological Institute from 1863 to 1865 and a member of the Grand Ducal Medical Commission. He was several times dean and 1858-1859 rector of the university.

Bergmann was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1859 and a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy in 1864 .

Carl Bergmann was married to Wilhelmine Bergmann, b. Heusinger from Waldegge. He died on April 30, 1865 after a stay at a health resort on the return journey in Mentone (near Geneva).

Fonts

  • Some observations and reflections on the vertebrate skeletal systems, their limitation and layout. Goettingen 1846.
  • On the relations of the heat economy of animals to their size. Reprinted from the Göttingen studies. 1847. Göttingen 1848. Digitized
  • Physiological remarks on some well-known peculiarities of the structure of birds. Berlin 1850.
  • with Rudolf Leuckart : Anatomical-physiological overview of the animal kingdom. Stuttgart 1852.
  • For knowledge of the tarsus of ruminants and pair-toed pachyderms. Rostock 1859.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergmann, Carl . In: Lexicon of Biology on Spektrum.de . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg, 1999.
  2. ↑ On the relationship between the heat economy of animals and their size. In: Göttingen Studies. 1. Abt., 1847, ZDB -ID 514193-x , pp. 595-708.
  3. ↑ 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, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 37.
  4. ^ Member entry by Carl Bergmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann, Carl Georg Lucas Christian (full name); Bergmann, Karl Georg Lucas Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1865
Place of death Geneva