Martin Münz

Martin Münz (born February 5, 1785 in Bamberg ; died March 18, 1848 in Würzburg ) was a German anatomist.

Live and act

Münz studied medicine with Friedrich Tiedemann and Philipp Franz von Walther in Landshut , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1810.

Friedrich Tiedemann recognized Martin Münz's extraordinary talent for drawing and took him on a study trip to Italy in 1811, which resulted in a monograph on animal life, for which Münz made the drawings and copperplate engravings, and which was honored in Paris in 1812, not least because of these engravings .

In Landshut he got a job as a prosector at the anatomical institute there, completed his habilitation in 1814 as a private lecturer and in 1821 finally became a full professor at the University of Landshut , which was moved from Landshut to Munich in 1826 .

In 1828 Martin Münz was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Würzburg .

Martin Münz held the Würzburg Chair for Anatomy (with the Anthropotomic Institute) and the Chair for Comparative Anatomy (with the Zootomic Institute, which he directed), which he transferred to Rudolf Albert Kölliker , who was appointed to Würzburg in September 1847, and the Chair of Experimental Physiology resigned. After the death of Münz, Kölliker took over the chair for anatomy and the management of the anatomical institute.

With Ignaz Döllinger , Johann Lucas Schönlein and Cajetan von Textor , Münz was one of the leading German doctors and scientists of the early 19th century who laid the foundation for the international importance of the Würzburg Medical Faculty.

On June 10, 1829 he was elected with the academic surname Bonn as a member (matriculation no. 1338) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Münz was married to Susanna Rumpf, the sister of the mineralogist and pharmaceutical chemist Ludwig Rumpf .

Fonts

Manual of the anatomy of the human body , I – V, Landshut 1815, 1817 (1821, 1827), Würzburg 1835, 1836.
with Friedrich Tiedemann : Anatomy of the tube holothuria of the pomeranian starfish and stone sea urchin: an award document crowned by the French Institute in MDCCCXII , Thomann, Landshut 1816 digitized
with Friedrich Tiedemann: Anatomy and educational history of the brain in the human fetus: together with a comparative representation of the structure of the brain in animals , 1816 ( digitized version )

literature

August Hirsch : Münz, Martin. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 23, 1886, p. 38 (digitized version) .
Gisela Kirchhoff: Martin Münz: Professor of Anatomy in Würzburg (1829-1849). At the same time a contribution to the history of the Theatrum anatomicum. Würzburg 1964 (= Mainfränkische Hefte, 42).
Holger G. Dietrich: Urological anatomy in the picture: from the artistic-anatomical illustration to the first operations, Springer, 2004, pp. 74-75 digitized

Web links

Martin Muenz's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 2, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg Medical Faculty in Anton Ruland's estate. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburger medical history reports 9, 1991, pp. 135–206, here: p. 191 f. (to Johann Elias Gottfried von Siebold, from 1829 prosector at the anthropotomic institute)
↑ Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth, p. 157 (on Valentin Leiblein, private lecturer and prosector at the zootomic institution)
^ Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: Anatomy in Würzburg (from 1593 to the present). In: Four Hundred Years of the University of Würzburg. Edited by Peter Baumgart, Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1982, pp. 985-1004, here: pp. 992 f.
^ Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: To the history of the Würzburg anatomy. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 1, 1983, pp. 138–145, here: p. 141.
↑ Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth, p. 138 f.
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 260 (archive.org)

personal data
SURNAME	Münz, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1848
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg Medical Faculty in Anton Ruland's estate. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburger medical history reports 9, 1991, pp. 135–206, here: p. 191 f. (to Johann Elias Gottfried von Siebold, from 1829 prosector at the anthropotomic institute)

[2] Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth, p. 157 (on Valentin Leiblein, private lecturer and prosector at the zootomic institution)

[3] Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: Anatomy in Würzburg (from 1593 to the present). In: Four Hundred Years of the University of Würzburg. Edited by Peter Baumgart, Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1982, pp. 985-1004, here: pp. 992 f.

[4] Theodor Heinrich Schiebler: To the history of the Würzburg anatomy. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 1, 1983, pp. 138–145, here: p. 141.

[5] Thomas Sauer and Ralf Vollmuth, p. 138 f.

[6] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 260 (archive.org)