Volcher coiter

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Volcher coiter

Volcher Coiter (* 1534 in Groningen , † June 2, 1576 in Brienne-le-Château , also called Volcher Coyter , Koyter and Latinized Volcherus Coiterus ) was a Dutch doctor , important anatomist and ornithologist .

Life

Volcher Coiter's guardian was the Italian doctor and naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi . Little is known about Coiter's life. It is possible that Coiter, who mainly dealt with anatomy and physiology , studied with the German doctor Leonhart Fuchs in Tübingen .

He is said to have been a pupil of Falloppio in Padua and Eustachi's in Rome . From 1562 he taught surgery and logic in Bologna , where he had previously attended Aldrovandi's classes , until he was stopped by the Inquisition in 1566 and imprisoned for a year for joining the Reformation . Between 1566 and 1569 he served the Margrave Ludwig VI. in Amberg . In 1569 he was appointed city ​​physicist and anatomist ( dissector ) by the city council of Nuremberg . He held the position until his death. The German doctor and botanist Joachim Camerarius the Younger probably recommended it . In 1575, Coiter was recruited as a military doctor by Johann Kasimir von Pfalz-Simmern during a campaign against France . He died in the castle of Count Brienne in Champagne .

Coiter, who was the first to treat embryology as a separate, full-fledged medical discipline, had become famous for his observations on chicken embryos, the development of which he described day after day until they hatch. He also described the female genitalia in Externarum et Internarum Principalium Humani Corporis of 1573. He also observed that freshly removed heart tissue portions keep beating for a while, and that the deep tissue in the heart beats the longest, with a high probability of was the first to describe this phenomenon.

In contrast to his predecessors, Coiter did not interpret the tooth as bone.

He also studied extensively the anatomy and behavior of birds and published drawings of the skeletons of cranes , cormorants , parrots and green woodpeckers .

Fonts

  • De ossibus et cartilaginibus corporis humani tabulae , Bologna 1566 ( digitized version from Kiel University Library )
  • Externarum et internarum principalium corporis humani partium tabulae atque anatomicae exercitationes observationesque variae, novis et artificiosissimis figuris illustratae , Nuremberg 1572
  • Diversorum animalium sceletorum explicationes, cum lectionibus Fallopii de partibus similaribus humani corporis , Nuremberg 1575

literature

Remarks

  1. In the literature z. Sometimes different life dates mentioned, see z. B. in the Dictionaire des sciences médicales ( digitized version )
  2. ^ A college of Falloppio, co-written by Georg Marius, came into the possession of Coiter as a postscript after Robert Herrlinger . See Rolf Heyers: Dr. Georg Marius, called Mayer von Würzburg (1533-1606). (Dental) medical dissertation Würzburg 1957, p. 1.
  3. Ullrich Rainer Otte: Jakob Calmann Linderer (1771-1840). A pioneer in scientific dentistry. Medical dissertation, Würzburg 2002, p. 18.