Friedrich Leuckart

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Friedrich Andreas Sigismund Leuckart (born August 26, 1794 in Helmstedt , † August 25, 1843 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physician, zoologist and naturalist.

Life

Friedrich Andreas Sigismund Leuckart was the youngest son of the book printer owner and councilor Sigismund Leuckart (* 1741–1826) and Johanna Sophie Regine Seemann (* 1757–1831) and grandson of the book printer Michael Leuckart . He visited the pedagogy in his hometown, where his interest in studying nature was aroused by one of his teachers, the son of the director Wiedeburg. From 1812 to 1816 he studied medicine and natural history at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen in 1813 . There he made friends with Heinrich Rathke and was an enthusiastic student of Blumenbach . With a thesis De equo bisulco Molinae he received his doctorate in medicine in Göttingen in 1816.

In 1817 Leuckart embarked on a major educational trip, during which he made contact with important scholars and deepened his knowledge in the field of zoology that was of particular interest to him . First he visited Carl Gravenhorst in Breslau . Then he stayed in Vienna for a year and three quarters , where he was kindly supported by Johann Gottfried Bremser , Karl Franz Anton von Schreibers and the two Natterers and carried out his first helminthological investigations published in the first issue of his Zoological Fragments . He mainly researched the previously little-known parasitic worms. Then he went to Trieste and Naples . He stayed and worked in the latter city for several months. In Paris he came into closer contact with Cuvier and Latreille , among others , then worked with Meckel in Cette and in 1821 returned to Helmstedt for several months.

Leuckart moved to Heidelberg at the end of 1822 , where he qualified as a lecturer in medicine and natural history at the beginning of 1823 and was appointed associate professor at Heidelberg University in 1829 . In 1828 he was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . From autumn 1832 he worked as a full professor of comparative anatomy and physiology as well as veterinary science at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He also headed the zootomy-physiological institute. Subsequently he made trips to Heligoland , the Adriatic Sea and, in 1836, to the North Sea coast of Holland . In 1838, under the management of GF Wucherer and Leuckart, the 16th meeting of German naturalists and doctors took place in Freiburg. He also signed as the author of the official report on the meeting. He continued teaching at the University of Breisgau until he succumbed to an incurable disease in the summer of 1843 at the age of 49. The University of Breisgau bought his larger zootomic collection. His natural history of the helminths , which he had hoped to be able to complete in a year, foiled disease and death; only the attempt at a natural division of the heminths (1827) appeared as an introduction.

Friedrich Andreas Sigismund Leuckart married Anna Blank on May 17, 1838. His nephew was the zoologist Rudolf Leuckart .

Works

  • Zoological Fragments , 1819–42, 3 booklets
  • Attempt to divide the helminths naturally , Heidelberg 1827;
  • Introduction to organiatrics and especially zoiatrics or animal medicine: for lectures on animal medicine and as preparation for studying the same: along with information on the more important general, German and foreign, animal-medicine publications . Heidelberg: Winter, 1832;
  • General introduction to natural history . Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1832;
  • About the distribution of the remnants of a pre-worldly organic creation , Freiburg i.Br. 1835;
  • Investigation of the human intermaxillary bone in its normal and abnormal metamorphosis: a contribution to the history of human development, together with considerations of the animal intermaxillary bone . Stuttgart: Swiss beard, 1840.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 40 , 13.
personal data
SURNAME Leuckart, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuckart, Friedrich Andreas Sigismund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, zoologist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1843
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau