Otto Deiters

Otto Deiters

Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters (born November 15, 1834 in Bonn , † December 5, 1863 in Bonn) was a German anatomist .

Live and act

Otto Deiters was born in 1834 as the son of law professor Peter Franz Deiters (1804–1861) and brother of the later musicologist Hermann Deiters . He studied medicine at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1856 . During his military service he worked in the Pathological Institute under Rudolf Virchow from 1857 . In 1858 he qualified as a professor for anatomy in Bonn. At the same time he worked as an internist in his own practice, since the family got into financial difficulties after the death of his father. His health suffered from this double burden. Otto Deiters died of typhus at the age of only 29 .

Deiters became famous for his description of the nerve cell and the identification of the axon , which he called the axis cylinder , and its dendrites in 1860. His name is associated with the nucleus vestibularis lateralis , which is also known as the "Deiters nucleus". The supporting cells between the outer hair cells of the organ of Corti in the cochlea are also named after him.

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  Nerve cell drawn by Deiters

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  Deiters representation of the hair cells

Fonts (selection)

• De incremento musculorum observationes anatomico-physiologicae. Dissertation . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1856.
• Strange cases of scarlet fever. 1859.
• About the present state of the doctrine of the cell. In: German Clinic. 11, 1859, pp. 175-179.
• Investigations into the lamina spiralis membranacea. Bonn 1860. (Virtual Laboratory MPIWG)
• Studies on the snail of birds. In: Arch Anat Physiol wissensch Med. 1860, pp. 409-460.
• Explanation regarding the lamina spiralis membranacea. In: Arch path Anat. 19 (1860), pp. 445-449.
• Contribution to the histology of the striated muscles. In: Arch Anat Physiol wissensch Med. 1861, pp. 393-424.
• About a case of leukemia. In: German Clinic. 13 (1861), p. 142.
• About the internal hearing organ of amphibians. In: Arch Anat Physiol wissensch Med. 1862, pp. 262-310.
• with Max Schultze (ed.): Studies on the brain and spinal cord of humans and mammals Vieweg, Braunschweig 1865. (archive.org)

literature

• Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp. 383, zeno.org
• Helmke Schierhorn : Otto Deiters (1834–1863) - life and neuroanatomical work. In: Journal for Microscopic-Anatomical Research. 100: 308-336 (1986). PMID 3524049 .
• Eberhard Nieschlag : Otto Deiters (1834–1863). In: Med world. 18 (1965), pp. 222-226. PMID 14269683 .
• Jochen Schacht, Joseph E. Hawkins: Sketches of Otohistory. Part 4: A Cell by Any Other Name: Cochlear Eponyms. In: Audiol Neurootol. 9 (2004), pp. 317-327. PMID 15467285 , doi: 10.1159 / 000081311 , PdF ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Jürgen Peiffer: Brain research in Germany 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as on the influence of the political environment on scientists. Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-40690-5 , p. 1064.
• RW Guillery: Observations of synaptic structures: origins of the neuron doctrine and its current status. In: Phil Trans R Soc B. 360 (2005), pp. 1281-1307, doi: 10.1098 / rstb.2003.1459
• Vera Sabina Deiters: Otto Friedrich Deiters. Life and work. Dissertation. Bonn 2006.

Web links

• Deiters cell in the Encyclopaedia Britannica