Receding hairline

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with a receding hairline. Painting by Karl Josef Raabe , 1814

With a receding hairline which is commonly known since the early 20th century hair loss designated at the hairline on the temples of a man. The medical name for this is calvities frontalis .

features

Receding hairlines are not infrequently signs of the onset of baldness (see also Hamilton-Norwood scheme ), through the emergence of a bald head or convergence with the bald head (tonsure) . However, they also occur regularly with closed hair growth into old age. Occasionally, they develop at a young age, during puberty . Unlike a bald head, receding hairlines are generally not seen as disfiguring. It is said of ancient Greek portraits that even then they were considered a sign of the dignity of an honorable age.

Word variants

The name alludes to the honor and the age of the early modern title Privy Councilor . It is still used today. Another expression for the same phenomenon - especially used in Austria - is Hofratsecken , because the comparable title Hofrat still exists today. In Switzerland in particular, the term Ratsherrenecken is also used . Ministerwinkel is also comparable . Another ironic term is marriage angle .

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: receding hairline  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google Ngram Viewer. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Theodor H. Schiebler, Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Anatomy: Cytology, histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic human anatomy. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-366205733-9 , p. 686, column 2 ( limited preview in Google book search);
    Calvities 'baldness': Pschyrembel , 259th edition, p. 259, col. 1.
  3. ↑ Hairiness of humans. In: R. Volk, F. Winter: Lexicon of Cosmetic Practice. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-370915297-3 , in particular p. 64, column 2 ff (entry from p. 63; limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Androgenetic hair loss / male-type hair loss. In: Petra Jany, Karsten Diekmann, Hanna Lipp-Thoben, Dieter Lück: Hairdressing specialist. Springer-Verlag, 2015, p. 56 ff.
  5. ↑ cf. Type “with short hairstyles and lighted temples” according to Dirk Piekarski: Anonymous Greek portraits of the 4th century. v. Chr: chronology and typology. Volume 82 of International Archeology (ISSN 0939-561X), Verlag Marie Leidorf , 2004, ISBN 978-389646354-8 , p. 76 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).