Mihály von Lenhossék

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Mihály von Lenhossék

Mihály (von) Lenhossék (also Michael von Lenhossék ; born August 28, 1863 in Pest , † January 26, 1937 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian-Austrian anatomist and university professor .

Life

Lenhossék came from a Budapest academic family. His father was the anatomist József von Lenhossék , his grandfather the physiologist Mihály Ignác von Lenhossék . Like his father and grandfather, he studied medicine at the University of Budapest . In 1882 he became a demonstrator there, in 1885 an intern, in 1886 second and finally in 1887 first scientific assistant to his father. In 1883 he obtained his first medical degree, in 1886 the doctorate to Dr. med. and finally in 1888/1889 the habilitation as a private lecturer in anatomy. In this position, after his father's death in 1888, he initially took over the professorship .

In 1889 Lenhossék went to the University of Basel . There he initially worked under Julius Kollmann as a prosector at the anatomical institute, and from 1891 as a private lecturer. In 1893 he moved to the University of Würzburg , where he also became a prosector under Albert Kölliker and was also an associate professor of anatomy. From 1895 he held the same position at the University of Tübingen with August von Froriep .

Ten years after Lenhossék left his hometown, he was offered a call back to the University of Budapest. From 1899 until his retirement in 1934 he was a full professor of anatomy and director of the 1st Anatomical Institute . From 1906 to 1908 he was also dean , 1917/1918 rector of the university.

As early as 1897 Lenhossék was appointed a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , then in 1903 a full member . In 1933 he was promoted to a member of the management board, and in 1934 he finally became an honorary member and vice president of the academy. In 1907 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He is the uncle of Nobel Prize winner Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt .

Work and namesake

In addition to his anthropological studies, Lenhossék mainly dealt with the sensory organs and the finer structure of the nervous system and is considered one of the founders of the neuron theory. He carried out in particular histological and embryological research. Today we remember the Henneguy – Lenhossék theory , which, along with Lenhossék, goes back to the French histologist Felix Henneguy (1850–1928) and which is based on Lenhossék's paper on ciliated cells from 1898.

In addition, the naming of a short process that takes place in the ganglia and is known as the Lenossék process is reminiscent of the Hungarian scholar.

Publications (selection)

  • The taste buds , Würzburg 1894.
  • Contributions to the histology of the nervous system and the sensory organs , Wiesbaden 1895.
  • The finer structure of the nervous system in the light of the latest research , Berlin 1895.
  • On spermatogenesis in mammals. Preliminary notification , Tübingen, 1897.
  • Az ember anatomiája [Human anatomy] , 3 volumes, Budapest 1922–1924.

literature

  • Lenhossék, Michael v. in Pagel's Biographical Excellent Doctors Lexicon of the Nineteenth Century. Berlin and Vienna 1901, col. 985.
  • Benda:  Lenhossék, Mihály von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 134.
  • T. Huzella: Michael von Lenhossék (1863-1937). In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. Volume 85, 1937, pp. 168-187.
  • M. Lambrecht: In memoriam Mihály Lenhossék in: Therapia Hungarica (English edition) 37 (1989), pp. 9-55.
  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, p. 842 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mihály von Lenhossék's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 24, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Michael J. Chapman: One hundred years of centrioles: the Henneguy – Lenhossek theory, meeting report , in: Internatl Microbiol 1998, p. 233 ff.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert von Koelliker and his circle. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 127-151, here: p. 147.
  4. ↑ Lenhossek's processes in: mondofacto medical dictionary (article of March 5, 2000, accessed July 24, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Lenhossék, Mihály von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenhossék, Mihály von (full name); Lenhossék, Michael von; Lenhossék, Mihály
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH pest
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1937
Place of death Budapest