Albert von Kölliker

Albert of Kölliker ( born July 6, 1817 in Zurich, † November 2, 1905 in Würzburg) was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist.

Life

Kölliker was the son of bank officials John Kölliker (1790-1836) and Anna Maria Katharina born Fuseli ( 1796-1860 ). He married in 1848 Maria Schwarz ( 1823-1901 ), with whom he had three children.

Kölliker studied from 1836 to 1839 at the University of Zurich, then at the Royal Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn for a semester and then until 1841 in Berlin and Heidelberg. He was a pupil of Johannes Peter Müller and Jakob Henle. In 1841, he became in 1842 a doctorate in philosophy in medicine.

In 1844 he became a professor at the University of Zurich, 1847 at the University of Würzburg, where he remained until his retirement in 1903. He was a founding member in 1849 of the Physical- Medical Society. Prior to this company, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on January 23, 1896 in front of the recently discovered X-rays. The hand of Kölliker was used as a demonstration. After the presentation Kölliker proposed the designation as X-rays. Until then X had used the designation X- rays.

Since 1849, Kölliker was with Carl von Siebold editor of the Journal of Scientific Zoology. In it he published in 1864 his lecture on " the Darwinian theory of creation ". The proposed mechanism of Charles Darwin, the selection of variables, Kölliker wrote to no effect. Instead, he presented a "theory of heterogeneous procreation " on. Kölliker assumed that living things have other differing bring under the influence of a general law of development of of them begotten germs. An analogy he saw in generational change. Some basic forms should unfold more and branch out to the diversity of living things, which Kölliker rather abrupt transitions between species accepted (in contrast to the gradual development of Darwin).

Kölliker led to the outdated term protoplasm still used the term cytoplasm for the content of the cells of living organisms a.

Honors

• Ennoblement by Luitpold of Bavaria ( 1897)
• Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London (1902 )

Works (selection)

• Development history of the squid, 1844
• Handbook of histology. 1852
• Evolution of man and the higher animals. Leipzig 1861 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• About the Darwinian theory of creation (Lecture 1864 in Würzburg). In: Journal of Scientific Zoology 14 (1864 ), pp. 174-186 (also in print from Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1864, 15 pages).
• Evolution of man and the higher animals. Academic lectures of Albert Kölliker. Engelmann, Leipzig 1861
• Outline of the history of the man and the higher animals. 1880
• Memories from my life. Engelmann, Leipzig 1899