Karl Bogislaus Reichert
Karl Bogislaus Reichert (born December 20, 1811 in Rastenburg / East Prussia , today Kętrzyn , Poland, † December 21, 1883 in Berlin ) was a German anatomist and embryologist .
Life
Reichert was the stepson of a school principal and studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin . He was a student of Friedrich Schlemm and Johannes Peter Müller at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and the Charité . In 1836 he received his doctorate in Berlin. Then he was a prosector at Müller, completed his habilitation in 1841 and was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Dorpat in 1843 . In 1853 he moved to the University of Breslau as a professor of physiology , and in 1858 he succeeded Müller at the Berlin Anatomy Department. In 1859 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg since 1850 and a member of the Leopoldina since 1860.
Services
Reicherts is considered to be one of the founders of modern development history . His work on the gill arch is still considered established knowledge today. He proposed the theory that the ossicles develop from the first two branchial arch cartilages ( Reichert-Gaupp theory ). In addition, he dealt with the anatomy of the brain and the development of the skull.
Selected Works
- De embryonum arcubus sic dictis branchialibus . Berlin 1836
- The developmental life in the vertebrate kingdom . Berlin 1840
- Contributions to the knowledge of the state of today's development history . Berlin 1843
- Observations on a protein-like substance in crystal form. In: Müller's Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med. Year 1848, pp. 197-251.
- The construction of the human brain . Leipzig 1859
literature
- Young-Ok Kim: Karl Bogislaus Reichert (1811 - 1883); his life and his research on anatomy and evolutionary history. Univ. Mainz, Diss., 2000
- Peter Voswinckel : Reichert, Karl Bogislaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 313 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Reichert, Karl Bogislaus. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1228.
- ↑ Karl Reichert: De embryonum arcubus sic dictis branchialibus. Berlin 1836, ( digitized ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichert, Karl Bogislaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reichert, Carl Bogislaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rastenburg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1883 |
| Place of death | Berlin |