Friedrich Wilhelm Theile

Friedrich Wilhelm Theile, ca.1850

Friedrich Wilhelm Theile (born November 11, 1801 in Buttstädt , Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , † October 20, 1879 in Weimar ) was a German doctor and anatomist .

Live and act

Theile began to study philology at the University of Jena in 1819 . Soon he switched to medicine. He finished his studies in Jena in 1825 with a doctorate. After a stay in Göttingen, he received the license to teach physiology and anatomy in Jena in 1826 . From 1828 he was involved in setting up a pharmaceutical training institute and at the same time was practically active as a doctor. In 1830 he was appointed associate professor in Jena and taught anatomy, physiology, anthropology , propaedeutics , surgery and pharmacology . In 1834 he accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the newly founded University of Bern . The political radicalization in Bern since 1846 and professional problems contributed to Theile requesting his dismissal in 1853. He then lived in Weimar, where he worked as a general practitioner, specialist translator and researcher.

In 1841, Theiles revised Muscle and Vascular Science by Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring , in which small rotator muscles are described for the first time, which only occur in the thoracic spine of mammals. Theile researched the anatomy and physiology of muscles, vessels, the heart, circulation and liver, as well as cretinism and microcephaly . His research on determining the weight of the muscles is still significant today , which led to a valid estimate of the percentage of muscle mass in middle-aged adults: around 36% (men) and 33.3% (women) of body weight.

Eponyms

• Theile canal ( sinus transversus pericardii )
• Theile glands ( biliary tract )
• Theile muscle ( transversus perinei superficialis muscle )

Works

• De musculi rotatoribus dorsi in homine et mammalibus a se detectis . Archive for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine 1839, pp. 102–38
• The physical methods of investigation , 1855 (translation: JB Barth and H.-L. Roger, Traité pratique d'auscultation )
• Epilepsy , 1855 (translation after LJF Delasiauve)
• Human Physiology , 1856 (translation after FC Donders )
• Weight determinations for the development of the muscular system and the skeleton in humans . Negotiations of the Leopoldina 46, 1884, pp. 135–471

literature

• Brigitta Behleit: Life picture of the anatomist Friedrich Wilhelm Theile (1801–1879) . Diss. Med. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 1962
• Eberhard J. Wormer :  Theile, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 41 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Julius Pagel :  Theile, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 669 f.
• www.thulb.uni-jena.de
• www.whonamedit.com