Christoph Theodor Aeby
Christoph Theodor Aeby (born February 25, 1835 in Phalsbourg in Lorraine on the country estate Gutenbrunnen / Bonnefontaine; † July 7, 1885 in Bilin , Bohemia , today Bílina, Czech Republic ) was an anthropologist .
His parents were the estate manager Hartmann Friedrich and Katherina, born. George. Aeby studied medicine in Basel and Göttingen, completed his habilitation in 1858 as a private lecturer in Basel, and became professor of anatomy at the University of Bern in 1863 , from where he was appointed to the University of Prague in 1884 . The main direction and signature of his work was almost always the physiological-morphological.
With his investigations into the speed of propagation of the irritation in the striated muscle fiber (Braunschweig, 1862), he attempted to solve a problem that had not yet been tackled. In contrast to Anders Jahan Retzius , he gave a new classification of the skull shapes (Eury- and Stenocephalic) using an eight-angle coordinate system and reducing all sizes to the length of the skull base as the principle of measurement.
He also showed that microcephaly is not an atavistic, but a pathological formation, and demonstrated the importance of air pressure for all joints.
Publications
- A new method for determining the shape of the skull in humans and mammals , Braunschweig, 1862
- Skull shapes of humans and monkeys , 1867
- Construction of the Human Body , 1871
- The bronchial tree , 1880
- Scheme of the fiber flow in the human brain and spinal cord , 1883
literature
- Ingrid Müller-Landgraf: Aeby, Christoph Theodor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Heinrich Buess: Aeby, Christoph Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , pp. 87 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Publications by Christoph Theodor Aeby in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Article in Pagel: Biographical Lexicon of Excellent Physicians of the Nineteenth Century. Berlin, Vienna 1901
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aeby, Christoph Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phalsbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1885 |
| Place of death | Bílina |