Emil Huschke

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Emil Huschke on a photograph by Carl Schenk around 1858

Emil Huschke (born December 14, 1797 in Weimar , † June 19, 1858 in Jena ) was a German anatomist , zoologist and embryologist .

Life

Huschke's father Wilhelm Ernst Christian (1760–1828) was Dr. med., Privy Councilor and personal physician in Weimar and general practitioner for Goethe, Herder and Wieland. Son Emil attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar from 1811 and studied medicine at the University of Jena from 1814 to 1818 . As a student, he took part in the Wartburg Festival of 1817 and became a member of the original fraternity .

He completed his studies in 1818 with a doctorate on the development of the respiratory organs and the swim bladder ( Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens quaedam de organorum respiratoriorum in animalium series metamorphosi generatium scripta et de versica natatoria piscium queastionem ). He then continued his studies in Berlin and in Vienna in 1819 , and in 1820 received permission to attend lectures. In 1821 he completed his habilitation with the work Mimices et physiognomices fragmentum physiologicum (German 1931) and then worked as a private lecturer.

He became an associate professor in 1823, a full honorary professor in 1826 and an associate associate professor in the medical faculty. He was inducted into the Senate in 1829. In 1838 Huschke became full professor of anatomy and physiology and director of the anatomical institute and the anatomical and zootomic museum at the University of Jena . Between 1840 and 1856 he held the dean's office of the medical faculty several times and was prorector of the University of Jena for two semesters. In 1846, the year it was founded, he was elected a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences . In 1849 he became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

After Huschke's death in 1858, his chair was divided into several professorships. Huschke's successor as professor of anatomy was Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903). In 1859 Albert von Bezold followed him as professor in physiology . In the winter semester of 1860/61, the Institute for Zoology was founded in Jena, also from the former department of Huschke. Ernst Haeckel , who married Huschke's daughter Agnes in 1867 , became professor here .

Works

  • De embryologia hominis. Jena 1820.
  • On animal movement and their organs. [Jena?] 1822.
  • Contributions to physiology and natural history. Vol. 1: About the senses. Weimar 1824.
  • Speech on the influence of the natural sciences when taking over the protectorate at the University of Jena: on August 6, 1842. Leipzig 1842.
  • Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring: Doctrine of the bowels and sense organs of the human body / reworked and finished by E. Huschke. Leipzig: Voss, 1844.
  • Skulls, brains and souls of humans and animals according to age, sex and raçe: shown together with six stone tablets with photographic images; according to new methods and investigations by Emil Huschke. Jena: Mauke, 1854.
  • About craniosclerosis totalis rhachitica and thickened skulls in general, along with new observations of that disease: a monographic program for the three hundred year jubilee celebration of the University of Jena. Jena: F. Frommann, 1858.

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