Gustav Schwalbe
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Gustav Albert Schwalbe (born August 1, 1844 in Quedlinburg , † April 23, 1916 in Strasbourg ) was a German anatomist and anthropologist .
Life
As a child, Schwalbe lived in his hometown at 393 Schmale Strasse . He studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the University of Zurich and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After his doctorate as Dr. med. (1866) he became a private lecturer at the Friedrichs University in Halle in 1870 . In 1871 he became a private lecturer at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and in 1872 an assistant professor at the University of Leipzig .
In 1873 Schwalbe became professor of anatomy at the University of Jena , in 1881 at the Albertus University of Königsberg and from 1883 at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-University of Strasbourg . In 1893/94 he was its rector. On January 14, 1879 ( registration number 2213 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Gustav Schwalbe opposed Rudolf Virchow , who rejected the Neanderthals as a type, and showed in 1901 with precise research methods that one can distinguish the Neanderthal from today's humans.
The corpuscula Schwalbe , the Schwalbe space , the Schwalbe law of nerve branching in the muscle and the Schwalbe core are named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- Neurology textbook . Eduard Besold, Erlangen 1881 ( archive )
- About the caliber ratios of the nerve fibers . FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1882 ( archive )
- Textbook of the anatomy of the sense organs . Eduard Besold, Erlangen 1887 ( archive )
- Studies on Pithecantropus erectus Dubois . In: Journal of Morphology and Anthropology, 1, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung , Stuttgart 1899
- The Neanderthal skull . In: Bonner Jahrbücher, 106, A. Marcus and E. Weber, Bonn 1901, pp. 1–71, panel I ( archive )
- The prehistory of the people . Friedrich Vieweg and son , Braunschweig 1904 ( archive )
- Studies on the prehistory of humans , E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (E. Nägele) , Stuttgart 1906 ( archive )
literature
- Theodor Mollison : Gustav Albert Schwalbe , in: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 397–411
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Schwalbe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Gustav Schwalbe's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1872 to winter semester 1873)
- Gustav Schwalbe in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Family origins and life of the anthropologist Gustav Schwalbe (1844-1916)
- Gustav Schwalbe and Trois têtes de momies égyptiennes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population register of the city of Quedlinburg from 1849
- ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
- ↑ Member entry of Gustav Schwalbe at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 11, 2017.
Christoph Gottlieb Büttner (1737–1776) | Friedrich Burdach (1814–1838) | Karl Ernst von Baer (1828–1834) | Martin Rathke (1835–1860) | Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1875–1880) | Berthold Benecke (1877) | Gustav Schwalbe (1881–1883) | Friedrich Merkel (1883–1885) | Ludwig Stieda (1886–1912) | Ernst Gaupp (1912–1915) | Johannes Sobotta (1916–1919) | Robert Heiss (1923–1945)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swallow, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwalbe, Gustav Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anatomist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quedlinburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1916 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |