Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand

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Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand , (born November 6, 1811 in Gießen ; † July 6, 1894 ibid) was a German forensic doctor and father of the chemist Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (1839–1906), the agriculture teacher Ferdinand Wilbrand (1840–1914, professor and director of the Hildesheim Agricultural School ) and the neuro- ophthalmologist Hermann Wilbrand (1851–1935).

Life

FJ Julius Wilbrand studied medicine in Giessen with his father, the Giessen anatomist and physiologist Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), and his uncle, the gynecologist Ferdinand von Ritgen (1787–1867). He received his doctorate in 1833, then became an assistant at the academic surgical hospital in Gießen and later there prosector and in 1840 an associate professor for forensic medicine and hygiene . In 1843 he was given the full professorship, which he held until his retirement in 1888. Wilbrand was one of the first to attempt healing with creosote on people with scrofulosis . His remaining work dealt with anatomy and forensic medicine.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the appreciation of the medicinal effects of creosote , Giessen 1834
  • Anatomy and physiology of the central structures of the nervous system , Giessen 1840
  • Textbook of forensic psychology for doctors and lawyers , Erlangen 1858
  • On the ages of humans and the human lifespan , Stuttgart 1876
  • On the essence of man from the judicial-medical standpoint , Giessen 1882

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Leopoldina . Issue 30, 1894, p. 159