Christian Wilhelm Braune

Christian Wilhelm Braune (born July 17, 1831 in Leipzig ; † April 29, 1892 there ) was a German anatomist . He was the son-in-law of Ernst Heinrich Weber and the son of the doctor Albert Braune .

Braune was a professor of topographical anatomy at the University of Leipzig . Braune had a good working relationship and lifelong friendship with the director of the Anatomical Institute Wilhelm His .

From 1867 to 1868 Braune published a topographical-anatomical atlas, the representations of which were based on frozen sections of a human body. The method of “frozen” or “ice anatomy” was practiced for the first time by the Russian surgeon and anatomist Nikolai Pirogow for the production of an anatomical atlas . Rudolf Virchow considered the Braune Atlas to be the greatest advance that the German medical literature of the time had made in 15 years.

Braune did pioneering work in the field of biomechanics , working in particular with the mathematician Otto Fischer . In 1882 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . In 1888 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Works

Topographical-anatomical atlas. After cutting through frozen cadavers. Lief. 1–3, Leipzig 1867–1868 (1st edition).
The venous system of the human body. Leipzig 1873.

literature

Wilhelm Krause: Braune, Christian Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 206-209.
Wilhelm Haan : Christian Wilhelm Braune . In: Saxon Writer's Lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, pp. 29-30.

Web links

Works by and about Christian Wilhelm Braune in the German Digital Library
Christian Wilhelm Braune in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Overview of Christian Wilhelm Braune's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1861 to summer semester 1892)

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Virchow: (discussion) W. Braune: Topographish-anatomical atlas after cutting through frozen cadavers. Leipzig, 1867–1868. Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicin 45, 1869, pp. 532-534.

personal data
SURNAME	Braune, Christian Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1892
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Rudolf Virchow: (discussion) W. Braune: Topographish-anatomical atlas after cutting through frozen cadavers. Leipzig, 1867–1868. Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicin 45, 1869, pp. 532-534.