Georg Ludwig Kobelt

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Georg Ludwig Kobelt

Georg Ludwig Kobelt (born March 12, 1804 in Kork near Kehl , † May 18, 1857 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German anatomist .

Life

His father was the doctor Christian Ludwig (1765-1810), senior physician in the French Guard Grenadier Regiment Murat. After his military service he was then a medical officer in Cork. His mother was Wilhelmine Otto from cork. Kobelt began studying law in Heidelberg in 1824 , switched to medicine in 1827 and received his doctorate in 1833. In 1833 he acquired the Facultas legendi , turned primarily to anatomy and in 1835 became a prosector in Heidelberg. Since 1841 active in the same position in Freiburg im Breisgau, he became an associate professor there in 1844 and a full professor in 1847 as well as a director of the anatomical institute. In 1844 he published a detailed description of the clitoris and pointed out the minor importance of the vagina for the pleasure of women. Kobelt produced over 1200 specimens for the Heidelberg and Freiburg collections and wrote, among other things, The Male and Female Lust-Organs of Humans and Some Mammals (1844).

Georg Ludwig Kobelt: Dissection of the pubic bone region with clitoris , 1844

He was the uncle of Wilhelm Kobelt (1865–1927).

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Inaug. med. sistens disquisitionem historicam de cordis et praecordium vitiis organicis cura Valsalviana et Albertiana persanandis. Dissertation, Heidelberg, 1833.
  • Contributions to anatomy and physiology. Heidelberg, 1840.
  • The male and female organs of lust in man and some mammals, etc. Freiburg, 1844. Fr. Translation by H. Kaula, Strasbourg and Paris, 1851.
  • The woman's side ovary, the long-missing side piece of the man's epididymis, etc. Heidelberg, 1847.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbro Kuhlo:  Kobelt, Georg Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Kobelt, Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Cork at Kehl
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1857
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau