Walther Felix
Walther Hermann Felix (born December 28, 1860 in Leipzig , † March 17, 1930 in Zurich ) was a German anatomist who worked as a professor in Zurich.
Life
Walther Felix was born as the son of the publisher Arthur Felix and his wife Antonie, geb. Albrecht, born in Leipzig. After attending school in his hometown, he began to study medicine at the university there, which he completed with the state examination at the University of Würzburg in 1886 after moving to Heidelberg .
After a doctorate (1889) and several years of assistantship at the Würzburg anatomical institute, Felix followed the local professor of anatomy, Philipp Stöhr , as a prosector in Zurich in 1890 , where he completed his habilitation in anatomy the following year. In 1896 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Zurich and worked there, with interruptions due to the war (1914/15), from 1919 as full professor and director of the Anatomical Institute until shortly before his death in 1930.
From 1887 Walther Felix was married to Natalie Susanne Leibert (* 1855), a landowner's daughter from Heidelberg. This marriage gave birth to three sons: Kurt (1888–1960), Willi (1892–1962) and Walter Rudolf (1894–1977).
The importance of Walther Felix as a researcher lies in his fundamental investigations into the development of the genitourinary system as well as in his anatomical contributions, in particular to Sauerbruch's surgery of the chest organs and his classic work The arbitrarily movable artificial hand .
literature
- Carl Baumgartner: The anatomist Walther Felix 1860-1930 . Diss. Zurich 1979 (with catalog raisonné, pp. 18-19)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Felix in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the lectures held by Walther Felix at the University of Zurich (winter semester 1891 to summer semester 1900)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baumgartner 1979, p. 31; for the family see also: Lothar Kreiser: Gottlob Frege: Life - Work - Time . Meiner, Hamburg 2001, p. 15.
- ↑ Baumgartner 1979, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felix, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Felix, Walther Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1930 |
| Place of death | Zurich |