Friedrich Maurer (anatomist)

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Friedrich Maurer

Friedrich (Friedel) Wilhelm Carl Alexander Adolf Maurer (born October 10, 1859 in Gießen , † July 8, 1936 in Jena ) was a German physician.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Alexander Adolf was the son of the public prosecutor and later higher regional judge Wilhelm Ludwig Maurer (born October 20, 1825 in Darmstadt; † February 5, 1906 ibid.) And his wife Sidonie Scharfenberg (born September 15, 1834 in Michelstadt i. Odw. ; † May 31, 1903 in Darmstadt) born.

In 1871 he began to study medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. From Easter 1881 Maurer studied at the University of Leipzig . Returning to Heidelberg, he passed his medical state examination in 1883 and received his doctorate in medicine in the same year. In addition, he had worked from January 4, 1883 to August 1, 1884 as an assistant to the anatomist Oscar Hertwig in Jena and from October 1, 1884 to October 1, 1888 as an assistant to Gegenbaur in Heidelberg. On October 1, 1888, Maurer completed his habilitation in Heidelberg, became an associate professor at Easter 1893 and represented von Gegenbaur's professorship until April 1, 1900. On April 1, 1901, he took over the full professorship of anatomy at the University of Jena and was associated with it as director the anatomical institute in Jena.

On July 22, 1908, he was appointed a secret councilor, on August 31, 1910, he became a knight of the Duke Ernestian House Order and on December 24, 1913, he was commander of the Order of the White Falcon . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Jena University and was rector of Salana in the winter semester of 1906 and in 1917/18 . In 1898 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1932 he retired from his professorship and died four years later at his last place of work. Maurer was the editor of the Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften and made a name for himself primarily through his morphological work.

family

Maurer married on August 13, 1894 in Heidelberg with Marie Fremery (born April 13, 1875 in Crimmitschau;) the daughter of the businessman Christian Fremery (born March 17, 1840 in Aachen, † May 5, 1885 in Heidelberg) and his wife Marie Brünninghausen (born November 8, 1842 in Cologne, † June 29, 1900 in Heidelberg). There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

  • Wilhelm Heinrich Georg August Otto Maurer (born August 13, 1895 in Heidelberg) became a doctor in Kreischa and a doctor of medicine, married on August 6, 1928 with Dina Alice Anneliese Grade (born April 25, 1903 in Königsberg / Prussia) the major's daughter in Berlin Wilhelm Grade (born July 14, 1875 in Köslin / Pomerania) and his wife Alice Hauptmann (born June 16, 1881 in Berlin)
  • Elisabeth Marie Sidonie Maurer (born February 28, 1897 in Heidelberg) married on May 21, 1920 to the extraordinary professor of medicine Hermann Gustav Runge
  • Kurt Julius Maurer (born January 13, 1900 in Heidelberg) became a chemist, married on September 15, 1928 to Elisabeth Anna Eva Geffcken (born November 28, 1902 in Munich)
  • Helmut Otto Maurer (born September 14, 1903 in Jena)

Works (selection)

  • A contribution to the knowledge of the pseudobranchs of the bony fish. Leipzig 1883.
  • Thyroid and thymus of the teleost animal. Leipzig 1885.
  • Thyroid, thymus and gill remains of amphibians. Leipzig 1887.
  • The gills and their vessels in anuras and urodelic amphibians and the transformations of the first two arterial arches in teleosts. Leipzig 1888.
  • The first appendix of the spleen and the first appearance of lymphatic cells in amphibians. Leipzig 1890.
  • The structure and development of the ventral trunk muscles in the urodelic amphibians and their relationship to the same muscles of the Selachian and Teleostier. Leipzig 1891.
  • The development of the connective tissue in Siredon pisciformis and the origin of the connective tissue in the muscle. Leipzig 1891.
  • Skin-sense organs, feathers and hair systems, and their mutual relationships. Leipzig 1892.
  • On the phylogeny of mammalian hair. Leipzig 1893.
  • On the question of the relationship between the hair of mammals and the sensory organs of the skin in lower vertebrates. Leipzig 1893.
  • The elements of the trunk muscles in cyclostomes and higher vertebrates. A Contribution to the Phylogeny of Striated Muscle Fiber. Leipzig 1894.
  • The ventral trunk muscles of the anuric amphibians. Leipzig 1894.
  • The epidermis and its descendants. Leipzig 1895.
  • The ventral trunk muscles of some reptiles. Leipzig 1896.
  • Studies on the comparative muscle theory of vertebrates. Jena 1905.
  • Basics of comparative tissue theory. Leipzig 1915.
  • The assessment of biological natural occurrences and the importance of the comparative morphology. Jena 1917.
  • The human body, its structure and its activity. Berlin 1923.
  • Ernst Haeckel's brain. Jena 1924.
  • Man and his ancestors. The development of man in the light of natural research. Paderborn 1928, reprint 2012.
  • A human, surgically removed abortion from the third week. In: Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Vol. 64. Jena 1930, pp. 197-218.
  • From the history of the University of Jena. Berlin 1933.

literature

  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener : Who is it? Contemporary Lexicon. Degener, Leipzig, 1912, 6th edition, p. 1027.
  • Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. GA Starke, Görlitz, 1930, vol. 69, p. 397 and p. 405-407.

Web link

Commons : Friedrich Maurer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ N / A: Maurer, Friedrich (Friedel) Wilhelm Carl Alexander Adolf. In: Hessian biography. Archived from the original ; accessed on July 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Member entry at the Leopoldina
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurer, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Alexander; Maurer, Adolf Friedel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1936
Place of death Jena