Georg Ruge

Georg Ruge as a faculty member at Heidelberg University in 1886

Georg Herrmann Ruge (born June 19, 1852 in Berlin , † June 21, 1919 in Zurich ) was a German physician (anatomist) and primatologist.

Ruge studied medicine in Jena and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1875 (contributions to the growth of the human lower jaw) . Then he was Karl Gegenbaur's assistant at the University of Heidelberg, where he qualified as a professor in anatomy in 1878. In 1882 he became an associate professor in Heidelberg, in 1888 a full professor in Amsterdam and in 1887 a full professor and director of the Anatomical Institute of the University of Zurich .

In his villa on the Zurich mountain, he and the pharmacologist Max Cloëtta discussed with Ferdinand Sauerbruch his appointment to the Surgical University Clinic in Zurich in the autumn of 1910 (the married couples Cloëtta and Ruge then belonged to the Sauerbruch's circle of friends in Zurich).

Among other things, he dealt with the anatomy (facial muscles) of great apes.

On October 26, 1887 ( registration number 2657 ) he became a member of the Leopoldina .

He was the brother of the gynecologist Carl Arnold Ruge .

Fonts

• Studies on the facial muscles of primates. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1887 ( Internet Archive)
• Instructions for the dissection exercises on the human corpse. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1888 (Internet Archive) , 5th edition 1921
• The body forms of the human being in their being conditioned by the upright gait. 1918

literature

• Entry in German Biographical Encyclopedia , KG Saur

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 123–125 and 157.
2. ↑ member entry by Georg Ruge in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 22 July 2017th

Web links

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