József von Lenhossék

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József von Lenhossék (1878)

József von Lenhossék (also Joseph von Lenhossek ; born March 20, 1818 in Ofen (Buda) , † December 2, 1888 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian anatomist , neurologist and university professor .

Life

As the son of the medical professor Mihály Ignác von Lenhossék, Lenhossék received a good education at home. He received his high school education in Ofen und Waitzen . He then took up his medicine studies at the University of Pest in 1836 . In 1841 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Nine years as a research assistant at the University of Pest followed, at the end of which in 1852 he was appointed private lecturer in anatomy. He completed study trips to Vienna , Paris and London . His first stay in Vienna led him to the anatomist Joseph Berres , his second stay from 1852 to 1854 then to the professors Josef Hyrtl and Ernst Brücke . During the latter stay there, he mainly devoted himself to his studies of the central nervous system .

Lenhossék went to the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1854 , where he was appointed professor of anatomy at the Institute of Medicine . In 1860 he followed a call back to his training facility. He became a full professor of descriptive and topographical anatomy at the University of Pest . He held this office until his death in 1888. In 1878/1879 he was also rector of the Pest University.

He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1858 Lonhossék was awarded the Prix ​​Monthyon of the Académie française . In 1864 he became a corresponding member, then in 1873 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1878 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1886 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In particular, his research on the spinal cord and the brain are considered significant. His preparations enjoyed great popularity in the scientific world. Among other things, the Hunterian Museum of London bought them from him and exhibited them.

The Hungarian anatomist Mihály von Lenhossék was his son.

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the discussion of the histological conditions of the central nervous system , Gerold, Vienna 1858.
  • New investigations into the finer structure of the central nervous system in man: I. Medulla spinalis and its bulbus rachit. Gerold, Vienna 1858.
  • Artificial skulls in general and two artificially formed macrocephalic skulls from Hungary as well as a skull from the barbarian times of Hungary , Budapest 1878.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857 (last accessed on June 6, 2019).
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 148.


personal data
SURNAME Lenhossék, József von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenhossék, Joseph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Oven (buda)
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1888
Place of death Budapest