Hermann Welcker (anatomist)

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Hermann Welcker.

Hermann Welcker (born April 8, 1822 in Giessen , † September 12, 1897 in Winterstein , Thuringian Forest ) was a German anatomist and university professor . From 1876 to 1897 he headed the Anatomical Institute of the University of Halle .

Life

Welcker came from a family of scholars and officials and grew up in Giessen and Darmstadt . He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Giessen . At his study places he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Gießen (1841) and Palatia Bonn (1847).

In 1851 he was pouring in with the work About irradiation and some other phenomena of seeing Dr. med. PhD. In 1853 his habilitation followed at the University of Heidelberg . In 1859 he became associate professor and prosector at the University of Halle , in 1866 he was appointed full professor. In 1876 he succeeded Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann as director of the anatomical institute there. During the time of his directorate, the new building of the anatomical institute falls. Hermann Welcker was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1881 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In the course of his research, he made prints of his hands and found that the images of the papillary lines have not changed over time. Taking the fingerprint is called dactyloscopy. It is mainly created to identify people. A murder case was first clarified by dactyloscopy on July 8, 1892 in Argentina. On April 14, 1911, dactyloscopy was introduced for the entire Kingdom of Bavaria.

He remained director of the institute until 1897. He became a go. Medical Council appointed.

Works

  • Instructions for the use of the blood stain scale, a means for researching the blood pigment content. In addition to a copy of the scale, several test spots and a number of empty fields to carry out samples. Giessen: J. Ricker, 1854.
  • On the storage of microscopic objects: together with information about the microscope and its accessories. On behalf of the Association for Microscopy in Giessen. Giessen: J. Ricker, 1856.
  • Investigations into the Growth and Structure of the Human Skull.
    • Part I: General conditions of skull growth and structure of normal skulls of the German tribe. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1862.
  • About two rarer forms of the human skull, Scaphocephalus and Trigonocephalus, and about the interrelationship between the size of the brain and the gift of mind. Hall: HW Schmit, 1863.
  • Size, number, volume, surface, and color of the corpuscles in man and in animals. Leipzig: Printed by E. Polz, [1863].
  • About the development and structure of the skin and hair in Bradypus, together with information about an alga living inside the sloth hair. Hall: HW Schmidt, 1864.
  • Craniological communications. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and son, 1866.
  • Cribra orbitalia, an ethnological-diagnostic feature on the skull of several human races. Braunschweig: Print by Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1887.
  • Two tools in demonstrating the brain and the heart. Berlin: Printing and publishing by G. Reimer, [1878?].
  • The asymmetries of the nose and the nasal skeleton. Stuttgart: Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1882.
  • Schiller's skull and death mask, along with communications about Kant's skull and death mask. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and son, 1883.
  • The morphological significance of the first phalanx. Halis: Hendel, 1884.
  • The skull of Rafael and the portraits of Rafael. Letter to Privy Council Professor Dr. H. Schaaffhausen. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and son, 1884.
  • The capacity and the three main diameters of the skull capsule in the various nations ... Braunschweig, F. Vieweg and Son, 1885.
  • On the skull of Dante. A letter from Hermann Welcker… to Dr. J. Barnard Davis. 1886.
  • On the criticism of the Schiller skull: a contribution to craniological diagnostics. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1887.
  • Abnormal skull sutures in humans and the like Anthropomorphic. Leipzig 1892.

literature

  • Andreas Heller: Hermann Welcker (1822–1897) - His anatomical preparations and models . Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.) Submitted to the Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , defended on January 9, 2007.
  • Lars-Burkhardt Sturm: The human anatomical collection of the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology in Halle / Saale - its history and its preparation profile under the directors Eduard d'Alton (1803-1854), Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1901-1877) and Hermann Welcker (1822 -1897) . Halle / Saale, 1997 (Halle, Univ., Diss., 1998).
  • Peter Tautz: Hermann Welcker (1882–1897): Genealogy - Life - Work . Halle / S., 1981 (Halle, Univ., Medicine. Fac., Diss.).
  • Wilhelm Krause:  Welcker, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 38-41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 39 , 48; 14 , 138
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  3. ↑ Member entry by Hermann Welcker (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 11, 2016.
  4. ^ Entry on Hermann Welcker in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Lecture at the State Criminal Police Office in Munich on the occasion of the Open House 2017

personal data
SURNAME Welcker, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1897
Place of death Winterstein , Thuringian Forest