Moritz Ignaz Weber

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Moritz Ignaz Weber (born July 19, 1795 in Landshut , † July 29, 1875 in Bonn ) was a German physician and anatomist . Weber was a professor of comparative and pathological anatomy at the University of Bonn .

Life

Moritz Ignaz Weber was born the son of the bookseller Anton Weber. He attended high school and studied medicine , especially human anatomy, at the University of Würzburg . In 1823 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg with the dissertation De hydrocephalo as a doctor of medicine .

Weber published his first medical works as early as 1820, including observations on the deceased from the Münster Zuchtanstalt, diseases of the heart and large vessels in the journal for psychic doctors , the treatise on the intermaxillary bones and the development of the split palate (wolf throat) in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's journal On Natural Science in general and as an independent work Basics of the Osteology of Man and Domestic Animals, in connection with Syndesmology etc. In 1824 his handbook of comparative osteology appeared .

Weber became a prosector at the University of Bonn, where he received an extraordinary professorship for anatomy in 1825 and was appointed full professor of comparative and pathological anatomy in 1830 . In Bonn he worked temporarily as assistant to the professor of surgery Philipp Franz von Walther .

His work The Art of Dissecting the Human Body for Use in Secir Exercises was published in four sections from 1826 to 1831. The anatomical atlas of the human body in natural size, position and connection of the parts with 82 plates was published from 1830 to 1832. It was printed in the second edition as early as 1835 to 1841. An English edition was published from 1831 and a French edition in 1834. Weber himself described the atlas as his main work. Another well-known and widespread work of his was Observatio anatomico-pathologica de corde univentriculari e quo unus tantum truncus-arteriosus surgit. Prolusio acad that appeared in 1832 and the Complete Handbook of the Anatomy of the Human Body (Dissection and Art, initially for the owners of the anatomical atlas) , published in three volumes from 1839 to 1845 . In 1853 the anatomical hand atlas of the human body appeared with the names inscribed or inscribed in the individual parts, similar to the maps that Weber published based on the model of the anatomist and physiologist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus .

Moritz Ignaz Weber died on July 29, 1875, a few days after his 80th birthday, in Bonn. For his services he was awarded the title of secret medical councilor . Two of his sons, Eduard and Gustav, became doctors like him. Moritz Ignaz Weber, nicknamed Rolfinkius, had been a member (matriculation no. 1205) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since November 28, 1820 . In 1849 he was made a corresponding member and in 1855 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

  • De hydrocephalo. ( Dissertation ), Würzburg 1823.
  • The skeletons of the house mammals and house birds. Bonn 1824.
  • Handbook of Comparative Osteology. Bonn 1824.
  • About the reunification or the healing process of broken long bones. Bonn 1825.
  • Description of a strange dislocation and malformation of the gallbladder. Bonn 1826.
  • A new contribution to the teaching of the conformity of the head and pelvis. Bonn 1826.
  • The art of dissecting the human body. For use in securing exercises. Bonn 1826-1831.
  • Via the ray flake in the human eye. Bonn 1827.
  • Anatomical atlas of the human body in natural size, position and connection of the parts. Düsseldorf 1830-1832.
  • Observatio anatomico-pathologica de corde univentriculari, e quo unus tantum truncus arteriosus surgit. Bonn 1832.
  • Complete Manual of Human Body Anatomy (Dissection Science and Art). Bonn 1839-1845.

literature

  • Franz von Kobell : Dr. Maurus Ignatius Weber. ( Nekrolog ) In: Session reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich. Volume 6, year 1876, page 123, F. Straub, Munich 1876, ( digitized )
  • Julius Pagel :  Weber, Moritz Ignaz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 354 f.
  • Weber, Moritz Ignaz. In: August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 6, Pages 209–210, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Leipzig / Vienna 1888, ( digitized )
  • Weber (M .. J ..). In: Adolf Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples. Volume 20, pages 467–471, Copenhagen / Leipzig 1834, ( digitized )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 252 (archive.org)
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Moritz Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1875
Place of death Bonn