Karl von Korff

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Karl von Korff (born October 6, 1867 in Hajen ; † 1956 ) was a German anatomist in Kiel, Tübingen and Argentina.

Life

Karl von Korff began to study medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1891 he was in the Corps Hasso Borussia recipiert . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1895 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1896/97 he went to China and Japan as a ship's doctor for a Hamburg shipping company. Then he went to Walther Flemming's anatomy department as an assistant . He completed his habilitation in anatomy with him in 1902 .

On June 26, 1913, he asked the medical faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for admission to the habilitation. Since he was already qualified as a professor in Kiel, took place the Habilitation . On July 16, 1913, the approval of the Kgl. Württemberg Ministry of Churches and Schools, v. Korff to give permission to hold lectures in anatomy in accordance with the standards for the habilitation of private lecturers of February 13, 1909. At the same time, the award of the title and rank of associate professor was initiated. The award of the title and rank of extraordinary professor took place on July 22, 1913. During the First World War v. Korff worked in a military hospital in Leipzig from 1917 at the latest. In November 1918 he informed the University of Tübingen that he wanted to resume his work in Tübingen if he could advance to the 2nd prosecution. The negotiations between the university and Karl von Korff were unsuccessful. After he had not complied with the resumption of service ordered by the university in 1919, the Ministry of the People's State of Württemberg ordered his dismissal in 1919. When the university tried to bring proceedings against von Korff in 1926, the letters were returned to Korff's previously known address in Leipzig as undeliverable.

Medical Faculty Building in Rosario (Santa Fe)

The medical faculty of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario appointed him to their chair of anatomy. In histology , v. Korff especially with the ontogenetic development of the teeth .

Works

  • On the histogenesis of sperm from Helix pomatia , 1899.
  • The Development of the Mammalian Dentin and Bone Substance , 1906.
  • On the histology and histogenesis of the connective tissue, especially the basic bone and dentin substance , 1907.
  • with Viktor von Ebner-Rofenstein : On the solution of the dentin question: Comments on the work . 1909.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 31/117
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the teaching of ulcus corneae serpens .
  3. ↑ Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology, Vol. 33
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: On the histogenesis of the sperm from Phalangista vulpina .
  5. ↑ Documents on Prof. Korff's habilitation (UAT 119/261 and UAT 125/82 [, 4])
  6. ^ A b Klaus D. Mörike: History of the Tübingen Anatomy
  7. ^ Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
  8. ↑ Personnel file (UAT 126/345)
  9. ↑ Isidor Fischer (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Munich Berlin 1962.
  10. ^ Stedman's Medical Eponyms
  11. ↑ Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 48
  12. ↑ International Catalog of Scientific Literature: Anatomy. O, Vol. 4-6
  13. ↑ P. Lence, Günther Ortmann , Edmund Randerath , Frédéric C. Roulet: Results of the general pathology and pathological anatomy of ...
  14. ↑ A Bibliography of Fishes: L – Z. Anonymous titles no. 1-650. 1917 by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, Arthur Wilbur Henn
personal data
SURNAME Korff, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and histologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hajen
DATE OF DEATH 1956