Paul Bartels

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Paul Bartels (born December 7, 1874 in Berlin , † January 23, 1914 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) was a German anatomist.

The son of the anthropologist Maximilian Bartels (1843–1904) studied medicine in Heidelberg and Berlin (among others with Wilhelm von Waldeyer ) and received his doctorate in 1897 with the thesis “About sex differences in the skull”. He was initially a volunteer assistant at the anatomical institutes of the universities of Berlin and Greifswald. In 1902 he became an assistant at the Berlin anatomy department and in 1912 at Greifswald, where he became a private lecturer with the title of professor. He completed his habilitation in Königsberg and began teaching there for a short time, but died in 1914 at the age of 39.

He examined 15,000 skulls and published from this fund, among other things, on skull and skeletal remains of the Bronze Age. His skull measurements were already considered quirky in his day , among other things, he thought that he could read the biological inferiority of women from their skulls. Shortly before his death, he made five Herero heads available to the student Heinrich Friedrich Bernhard Zeidler for his dissertation “Contributions to the anthropology of the Herero”. For Karl von Bardeleben's manual of human anatomy , he wrote the anatomy of the lymphatic system, which promoted his scientific reputation.

Like his father, he was involved in the new editions of The Woman in Nature and Ethnology by Hermann Heinrich Ploss .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vierhaus (Ed.), German Biographical Encyclopedia, De Gruyter
  2. ^ Christian Tilitzki , Die Albertus-Universität Königsberg, Volume 1, Akademie Verlag 2012, p. 269
  3. ^ Heinrich FB Zeidler, Contributions to the Anthropology of Herero, Journal for Morphology and Anthropology, Volume 17, 1914, pp. 185–246 (also dissertation)
  4. ^ Review by Zeidler, contributions to the anthropology of the Herero, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Volume 46, 1914, pp. 197-199, JSTOR
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1914
Place of death Koenigsberg , East Prussia