Wilhelm Gottlieb Kelch

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Wilhelm Gottlieb Kelch (* 1776 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † February 2, 1813 ibid) was a German prosector in Königsberg.

Life

Kelch studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg . Prosector since 1795 , he received his doctorate in medicine in 1797 . He examined the body of Immanuel Kant and referred to the skull theory of Franz Joseph Gall . "Despite the contemporary criticism of Gall's skull theory, Gall-Adept Wilhelm Gottlieb Kelch, private teacher of medicine and prosector at the anatomical theater in Königsberg, examined these previously unknown tools for spying on the inside of man" on the head of Kant's corpse by scanning and published these investigations in his writing in the year the philosopher died. ”For the Königsberg Kant celebration (1924) , Graefe and Unzer published a reprint of the skull report.

Works

  • De liquore gastrico ciborum menstruo . Dissertation, Königsberg 1797.
  • De symptomatibus et signis graviditatis verae simplicis uterinae eorumque caussis . Dissertation, Königsberg 1799.
  • About Kant's skull, an addition to Gall's brain and skull theory . Friedrich Nicolovius , Koenigsberg 1804; archive.org

Web links

  • Cup in the WorldCat

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Prutz : The Royal Albertus University. 1894
  2. ^ Heinrich Lange: Cast of Kant's skull in Berlin . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 9, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 4–15 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  3. ↑ Gräfe und Unzer has no copy in the archive.
personal data
SURNAME Chalice, Wilhelm Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicians in Koenigsberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1813
Place of death Koenigsberg i. Pr.