Gustav Joseph (medic)

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Gustav Joseph (born December 17, 1828 in Dyhernfurth , Wohlau district , † around 1891 ) was a German physician , anthropologist and zoologist .

Life

Gustav Joseph studied medicine in Breslau at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and received his doctorate with his dissertation on November 14, 1851 De causis sonorum cordis in Breslau. He then practiced as a doctor in Breslau from 1852 and soon afterwards worked as a secondary doctor at the surgical and ophthalmological clinic and polyclinic with Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf , to whom he dedicated his paper on Venice as a winter stay for breast sufferers , published in 1856 by FEC Leuckart in Breslau .

In 1873 he completed his habilitation in the field of anthropology with a thesis on comparative anatomy as a private lecturer in Breslau.

For many years, Gustav Joseph worked on the fauna found during his excursions in the stalactite caves of Carniola in present-day Slovenia (including the Adelsberg cave ) and is the author of numerous initial zoological descriptions.

He had been a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture since 1862 and a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main since 1874 . On February 10, 1881 Gustav Joseph was registered in the Zoology and Anatomy Section under matriculation no. In 2308 admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1887 he announced his resignation from the Entomological Association in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • De causis sonorum cordis . Vratislaviae 1851
  • History of the physiology of heart sounds before and after Laënnec until 1852 . In: Janus, Volume 2, Gotha 1853, pp. 1–39, 345–374 and 505–527 ( digitized version )
  • Venice as a winter stay for breast sufferers . Leuckart, Breslau 1856 ( digitized version )
  • Observations on the way of life and occurrence of the species of the blind genera Machaerites, Leptodirus, Oryotus and Troglorrhynchus indigenous to the Carniolan mountain caves . In: Yearbook of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture, 49, 1871, pp. 171–182 ( digitized version )
  • Morphological studies on the head skeleton of humans and vertebrates . Korn, Breslau 1873 ( digitized version )
  • The stalactite grottos in Carniola and the animal world peculiar to them . Habel, Berlin 1875 ( digitized version )
  • About Enchytraeus cavicola n. Sp . In: Zoologischer Anzeiger, 3, 1880 pp. 358–359 ( digitized version )
  • Experience in the scientific collection and observation of the arthropods belonging to the Krainer stalactite grottoes . In: Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1881, pp. 233–282 ( digitized version )
  • Systematic index of the arthropods indigenous to the stalactite caves of Krain, together with diagnoses of the species discovered by the author and not yet described . In: Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 26, 1882, pp. 1–50 ( digitized version )

literature

  • August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Third volume, Haab – Lindsley , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1886, p. 415 (archive.org)
  • Karl Pretzsch : Directory of the Breslau university publications 1811–1885. With an attachment containing the extraordinary and honorary doctorates as well as the renewals . Korn, Breslau 1905, page 95 ( digitized version ) and page 286 ( digitized version )
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 214 ( archive.org ).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to August Hirsch 1886, p. 415 and Willi Uhle 1889, p. 214. According to Karl Pretsch 1905, p. 95, Gustav Joseph was born three years earlier on December 17, 1825 in Breslau.
  2. ^ Directory of all members of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. For the budget period 1886 and 1887. Breslau 1886 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Directory of the members of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society 1878. IV. Corresponding members ( digital copy )
  4. ↑ * Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 17th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1881, p. 18 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  5. ↑ Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 31, Berlin 1887, p. XXX ( digitized version )


personal data
SURNAME Joseph, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, anthropologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Dyhernfurth , Wohlau district
DATE OF DEATH around 1891