Nathanael Lieberkühn

Nathanael Lieberkühn (born July 8, 1821 in Barby , † August 14, 1887 in Marburg ) was a German physician and anatomist .

From 1843 Lieberkühn studied philology and philosophy at the Universities of Halle and Berlin . In spring 1845 he switched to medicine and was a. a. Listener to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller .

1849 closed Lieberkühn his studies with a doctorate to the Dr. med. from. From 1857 Lieberkühn was a prosector at the Berlin anatomy . His tasks there were z. T. also the basis of his habilitation in 1858. In 1860 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1867 Lieberkühn accepted a position at the University Hospital Marburg and worked there until his death in 1887. His colleague Karl von Bardeleben wrote an honorable obituary .

Honors

• Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I awarded him the title of Privy Medical Councilor .

Works (selection)

• About the movement phenomena of the cells . Marburg 1870.
• About the history of the development of the vertebrate eye . Kassel 1872.
• About the resorption of the bone substance . Frankfurt / M. 1877 (together with Isidor Bermann ).
• About the cotyledons of the mammals . Marburg 1880.

literature

• Karl von Bardeleben : Nathanael Lieberkühn . In: German Medical Weekly . 1887, p. 489 (obituary)
• August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Martino Books, Mansfield Center, CT 2002, ISBN 1-578-98027-5 (6 vols., Here especially vol. 3; reprint of the Vienna edition 1884/88)