Robert Wiedersheim

The young Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim, probably in the spring of 1874 by Alfredo Noack in Genoa.

Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim (born April 21, 1848 in Nürtingen , † July 12, 1923 in Schachen ) was a German comparative anatomist working in the fields of zoology and anthropology .

Life

His father was Eduard Friedrich Wiedersheim (1819–1882). His mother, Bertha Friederike Wiedersheim (1825–1848), née Otto, died a few days after his birth. Robert Wiedersheim was then raised in the house of his grandfather, the factory owner Immanuel Friedrich Otto (1791–1875) in Nürtingen. He completed his school days in Nürtingen on the one hand and in Kirchheim unter Teck on the other, then followed the high school in Stuttgart, where he could live with an uncle.

From 1868 he studied natural sciences for one semester in Lausanne , then medicine from 1868 to 1870 in Tübingen with Franz von Leydig , in 1871 with the anatomist Carl Hasse in Würzburg , and in 1872 in Freiburg with Albert Schinzinger . With his dissertation prepared by Hasse on the finer structural relationships of the glands in the gizzards of birds he received his doctorate and in 1872 he passed his state examination with Adolf Kussmaul in Freiburg, whereupon he returned to Würzburg in the same year as Kölliker's assistant and there in 1873 as successor to Hasse's prosector the anatomy was. During his studies in 1868 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity .

In 1873 he married Tilla Gruber, a daughter of the Lindau businessman Friedrich Gruber . After his nostrification he worked from 1876 as a prosector at the anatomical institute of the University of Freiburg with Alexander Ecker in Freiburg , where he was appointed associate professor the following year. In 1883 he succeeded Ecker as a full professor and director of the anatomical and comparative anatomical institute. In 1918 he retired.

In 1894, Wiedersheim was appointed Hofrat and in 1902 a Privy Councilor. In 1910 he was appointed privy councilor .

Honors

In 1879 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1909 he was an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• The anatomy of the frog . F. Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1864–1882 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5512
• The finer structural relationships of the glands in the gizzard of birds (1872)
• Salamandrina perspicillata and Geotriton fuscus. Attempt of a comparative anatomy of the salamandrines, with special consideration of the skeletal relationships . Genoa 1875 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.64346
• The head skeleton of the Urodelen. a contribution to the comparative anatomy of the vertebrate skull . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1877 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8411
• The anatomy of the Gymnophionen G. Fischer, Jena (1879) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.11973
• Text-book of the comparative anatomy of the vertebrates . G. Fischer, Jena 1883 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.1011
• The anatomy of the frog . 2nd edition, F. Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1887 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5515
• Outline of the comparative anatomy of the vertebrates . 2nd edition, G. Fischer, Jena 1888 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8286
• Manuel d'anatomie comparée des vertébrés (1890) together with Gaston Moquin-Tandon (1845–1929), online
• The limb skeleton of the vertebrate animals, with special consideration of the shoulder and pelvic girdle in fish, amphibians and reptiles . G. Fischer, Jena 1892 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.53700
• Outline of the comparative anatomy of the vertebrates . 3rd edition, G. Fischer, Jena 1893 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14768
• Anatomy of the frog . 3rd edition, F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1896 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5511 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.10095
• Comparative anatomy of the vertebrates . 5th edition, G. Fischer, Jena 1902 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.51383
• The building of man as a testimony to his past . 3rd edition, H. Laupp, Tübingen 1902 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.62051
• Comparative anatomy of the vertebrates. G. Fischer (1906) edits online for students
• Introduction to the comparative anatomy of vertebrates . Fischer, Jena 1907 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8625
• Life memories. Tubingen 1919.

Web links

Wikisource: Robert Wiedersheim  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Robert Wiedersheim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Two lectures by Prof. Wiedersheim at the University of Freiburg. (1. On the history of anatomy , April 28, 1894. 2. On the preparatory training of our academic youth at the humanistic grammar schools , 1894).
• Illustration from Die Anatomie der Gymnophionen (1879)

literature

• Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert von Koelliker and his circle. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 127-151, here: p. 140.
• Thomas Rathgeber: Early evidence of the Eichbergschacht (cat.-no. 7621/7) near Undingen (Swabian Alb) and appreciation of the biospelaeological work of Robert Ernst Wiedersheim. In: Contributions to cave and karst studies in southwest Germany. No. 46, June 2008, pp. 5-18 ( digitized version ), in particular pp. 11-15.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Early evidence of the Eichbergschacht (cat. No. 7621/7) near Undingen (Swabian Alb) and appreciation of the biospelaeological work of Robert Ernst Wiedersheim. Articles on cave and karst science in southwest Germany No. 46 pp. 5-18 Stuttgart, June 2008. p. 12 (PDF; 2.4 MB)
2. ↑ Early evidence of the Eichbergschacht (cat. No. 7621/7) near Undingen (Swabian Alb) and appreciation of the biospelaeological work of Robert Ernst Wiedersheim. Articles on cave and karst science in southwest Germany No. 46 pp. 5-18 Stuttgart, June 2008. pp. 11 ff. (PDF; 2.4 MB)
3. ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 281.
4. ↑ Jakob Kocher: History of the City of Nürtingen, 1924, Volume 2, page 260
5. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Robert Wiedersheim
6. ^ Robert Wiedersheim in the membership directory of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences