Walter Gebhardt (doctor)
Walter Gebhardt (born March 22, 1870 in Breslau ; † March 3, 1918 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German doctor and anatomist .
Life
Gebhardt graduated from high school in Breslau in 1889 . He then studied first in Breslau, where he was also active in the Corps Silesia . After a short stay in Berlin, he returned to Breslau and passed the medical state examination in 1894. After receiving his doctorate in the same year as Dr. med. he was initially an assistant at the University Clinic in Wroclaw. In 1897 he moved to Carl Zeiss in Jena because of better career opportunities there as a research assistant and biological director of the department for microscopy and microphotography . From there he moved to the University of Halle (Saale) in 1899, habilitated in anatomy in 1901 and became an associate professor in 1906 . In 1905 Gebhardt was appointed a member of the Leopoldina and in 1917 he was honored with the Georg von Meyer Medal of the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research . Because of myopia , he was not on the front lines during the First World War , but a doctor in a hospital in Halle. There he died of an infection acquired while on duty . In his time, Gebhardt was considered the greatest living expert on the fine structure of the vertebrate skeleton.
Works
- About the hybridization of Rana esculenta with Rana arvalis. Breslau (dissertation) 1894 ( online )
- The photomicrograph of colored specimens. 1899
- About the functional structure of some teeth. Halle (Saale), 1901
- About functionally important ways of arranging the coarser and finer components of the vertebrate bone. 1901
- Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birthday of Wilhelm Roux. 1910
literature
- Obituary for Walter Gebhardt. In: Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle ad p. Volume 5, 1921, p. 45.
- Walter Gebhardt. In: Works from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 14, 1952, p. 112.
- Hans-Heinz Eulner: Gebhardt, Franz August Max Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 121 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Entry on Walter Gebhardt in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebhardt, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1918 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |