Samuel Christian Lucae

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Samuel Christian Lucae , often also Lucä (* May 2, 1787 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 28, 1821 ibid) was a German physician and university professor .

Life

Lucae is a descendant of the chronicler Friedrich Lucae and took in 1805 to study medicine at the University of Mainz , went in 1807 to the University of Tübingen , where he on 2 November 1808 to Dr. med. received his doctorate . He first returned to his hometown and was accepted into the medical profession there in 1809, before teaching as a private lecturer in physiology and osteology at the University of Heidelberg from May 1812 . Also in 1812 he became professor of anatomy and physiology under Karl Wenzel at the Grand Ducal Medical and Surgical School in Frankfurt, which had to be closed again in 1813 for financial reasons. After that he worked as a doctor again.

Lucae was appointed full professor of pathology and therapy as well as director of the medical clinic at the University of Marburg on June 2, 1815 . In 1820 he was Vice President of the University of Marburg and deputy head of the university. He made particular contributions in the field of anatomy and physiology.

His sons were the anatomist Johann Christian Gustav Lucae and the lawyer and writer Friedrich Lucae . The Lucaestraße in Frankfurt-Eschersheim is named after them.

Publications (selection)

  • Anatomical studies of the thymus in humans and animals , Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1811.
  • De facie humana cogitata anatomico-physiologica , Engelmann, Heidelberg 1812.
  • De mechanicis nonnullis organorum rationibus , Frankfurt am Main 1813.
  • Anatomical remarks on the diverticula on the intestinal canal and on the cavities of the thymus , Schrag, Nuremberg 1813.
  • Basic features of the doctrine of the reproductive vital activity of the human individual , Varrentrap, Frankfurt am Main 1816.
  • Outline of the history of the development of the human body , Krieger, Marburg 1819.

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Individual evidence

  1. W. Bickerich: Friedrich Lucäs trip to Lissa to 1672. In: Historical monthly sheets for the province of Posen , born 8 (1907), S. 130th