Willem Vrolik

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Willem Vrolik.

Willem Vrolik (born April 29, 1801 in Amsterdam , † December 22, 1863 there ) was a Dutch anatomist and pathologist .

Life

Vrolik was the son of the doctor Gerardus Vrolik (1775-1859), who taught at the Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustra , predecessor of the University of Amsterdam , where his son also worked later.

Vrolik spent the first years of his medical studies at the University of Utrecht , where he received an award for an essay in Latin on the hearing mechanisms of humans and animals. He finished his medical studies in Paris in 1823 and returned to Amsterdam , where he mainly dealt with comparative anatomy and zoology . In 1828 Vrolik became professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Groningen ; there he was influenced above all by the fascinating teratological collection of the famous physiologist Peter Camper .

Willem Vrolik was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . In 1829 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

After Vrolik was drafted into the Dutch army in 1830, he then took a chair as professor of anatomy, physiology and natural sciences at the Athenaeum Illustra in 1831 , where he spent the rest of his career.

Vrolik contributed much to the fields of comparative anatomy, zoology and teratology which earned him the Prix ​​Monthyon of the Academy of Sciences . Furthermore, he was able to get through important medical examinations such as B. profile in the skeletal disease osteogenesis imperfecta , type III of this disease also known as Vrolik syndrome (Osteogenesis imperfecta congenita type Vrolik). Furthermore, Vrolik and his father gained international reputation through the accumulation of various human and animal bodies, which show the most diverse aspects of embryology, pathology, anatomy and congenital abnormality. The Vrolik collection , which has grown steadily thanks to numerous donations, today counts almost 5,000 copies, with 500 of the teratological pieces being largely exhibited in the Vrolik Museum.

Vrolik himself lived rather cautiously as a devout Christian and deacon of the Lutheran Church. Together with his wife Theodora Cornelia van Doorn, he had two sons and five daughters, the latter of whom died in their early youth. In 1863 Vrolik retired from work due to health problems and died in Amsterdam that same year.

Works

Vrolik published work on cyclopia (1834), the pathogenesis of congenital anomalies, and a treatise on Siamese twins (1840).

From 1840 to 1844 he published the Handboek der ziektekundige ontleedkunde (manual of pathological anomalies) and the tabulae ad illustrandam embryogenesin hominis et mammalium tam naturalem quam abnormalem ( embryogenesis of vertebrates). In zoology, he published from 1841 to 1852 some much-appreciated work on chimpanzees , the Northern bottlenose whale ( Hyperoodon ampullatus ) and manatees ( " Manatus americanus "). He also wrote the article Quadrumana in Robert Bentley Todd et al .: The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (5 volumes, London 1836-1859) and founded together with Gerard Johannes Mulder (1812-1880) and Herman Christian van Hall (1801-1874 ) the journal Bijdragen tot de natuurkundige wetenschappen (1826–1834).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  2. ↑ Member entry of Willem Vrolik (junior) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vrolik, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch anatomist and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1863
Place of death Amsterdam