Ernst Friedrich Gurlt
Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (born October 13, 1794 in Drentkau near Grünberg , Silesia , † August 13, 1882 in Berlin ) was a German veterinarian . He was a professor of animal anatomy in Berlin and founder of the Gurlt collection.
Life
Gurlt completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and studied medicine in Breslau from 1814, despite the lack of a high school diploma . He received an assistant position in the local anatomical institute and received his doctorate in 1819. On the way to Vienna , where he wanted to study veterinary medicine after completing his doctorate , he called on the physiologist Rudolphi in Berlin , who persuaded him to change his plans and accept a position as a tutor at the Berlin Veterinary School - without the appropriate training. Gurlt's preoccupation with this new material resulted in his handbook of the comparative anatomy of domestic mammals .
Gurlt married Henriette Emilie Doniges in 1824. The marriage produced three sons, including Ernst Julius Gurlt , and a daughter. In the 32 years of his professional activity he wrote numerous other papers, was a member of 24 medical or veterinary associations and technical director of the veterinary school. In 1870 he retired, but that did not mean the end of his scientific work.
The Gurltsche Collection
Gurlt took over the supervision of the horseshoe, skeleton and preparation collection of the veterinary school in Langhansbau when he started his repetition position in Berlin. At that time, it probably consisted of almost 600 preparations and was quickly expanded by Gurlt. In the year of his retirement, the stock had grown to 6,418 preparations.
Gurlt's research and collection focus was on the area of malformations . Gurlt wrote a description for each piece and kept the catalog himself. Particularly interesting specimens found their way into his textbook on pathological anatomy , which he published in 1832; others were discussed in the magazine for all veterinary medicine , of which Gurlt was one of the editors. This magazine is considered the first magazine for veterinarians in Germany. Between 1838 and 1870 Gurlt also published the catalog of the zootomic museum of the Royal Veterinary School in Berlin in this magazine . After Gurlt had retired, the catalog was no longer edited.
Gurlt's successor, Carl Friedrich Müller, reduced the number of preparations due to lack of space. A large part of the malformation collection was placed in the pathology department and fell victim to an air raid during World War II.
143 skeletons and 105 moist specimens have been preserved from Gurlt's collection. Today they are in the anatomical collection of the Institute for Veterinary Anatomy and are generally accessible during normal opening hours. Some of the preparations can also be seen on the Internet, as far as possible with Gurlt's comments from the original catalog.
Fonts
- Prussian Pharmacopoeia . Decker, Berlin 1847 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Otto Hamann: Gurlt, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 644 f.
- Joachim Boessneck: Gurlt, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 331 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Alfred Smollich: Ernst Friedrich Gurlt , in: Gegenbaurs morphologisches Jahrbuch 134, 1988, 4, pp. 575-583
Web links
- Necrology and bibliography
- Gurlt's curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Veterinary Anatomy at FU Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Gurlt collection presented on the website of the Institute for Veterinary Anatomy of the Free University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gurlt, Ernst Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gurlt, Ernst F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drentkau, Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1882 |
| Place of death | Berlin |