Eduard Friedrich Weber (physician)

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Eduard Weber. Credit: Wellcome Library

Eduard Friedrich Weber (born March 10, 1806 in Wittenberg , † May 18, 1871 in Leipzig ) was a German physiologist and anatomist .

Life

The son of Michael Weber and his first wife Christiana Wilhelmina Friederica Lippold, was educated at the orphanage school and the pedagogy in Halle (Saale). Weber studied medicine at the University of Leipzig and the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where he studied medicine in 1829 with the inaugural treatise Disquisitio anatomica uteri et ovariorum puellae septimo a conceptione die defunctae (anatomical examination of the uterus and ovaries of a girl who died seven days after conception) Obtained a doctorate . He then practiced in Halle as an assistant doctor at the clinic of Krukenberg, in Naumburg (Saale) and Göttingen , where he worked with his brother Wilhelm Eduard on the mechanics of human walking tools (Göttingen 1836).

In 1836 he followed a call as a prosector at the anatomical institute in Leipzig. In 1838 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig with the treatise Quaestiones physiologicae de phenomenis galvano-magneticis in corpore humano observatis (Physiological studies of galvano-magnetic phenomena observed in the human body). In this position, since 1847 as associate professor, he worked until his death. In its founding year 1846, he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

With his treatise Muscle Movement in Rudolf Wagner's Concise Dictionary of Physiology , he opened up new paths in this part of science.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the SAW: Eduard Friedrich Weber. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on December 11, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Eduard Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1871
Place of death Leipzig