Ignaz Döllinger

Ignaz Dollinger ( born May 24, 1770 in Bamberg, † January 14, 1841 in Munich) was a German physician.

His father Ignaz Dollinger sr. (1721-1800) was a physician from Hildesheim, who practiced later in Würzburg and was from 1769 professor of medicine and fürstbischöflicher personal physician to Bamberg. His son, the future priest and theologian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger, was born on February 28, 1799 in Bamberg.

Life

Dollinger began his studies in his home town of Bamberg, then continued it in Würzburg, Vienna and Pavia. He then returned but first back to Bamberg. Important university teachers were in Würzburg Carl Caspar von Siebold, and in Pavia Antonio Scarpa.

Shortly after his graduation in 1794 he worked in Bamberg as a poor physician. He then became professor of physiology and general pathology at the University of Bamberg. In 1803 he received a call for the courses of anatomy and physiology at the University of Würzburg.

In Würzburg him his active scientific action put forward a number of students, such as Lorenz Oken, Christian Heinrich Pander and Karl Ernst von Baer. Johann Lukas Schönlein was with his work on the comparative anatomy of the brain graduate student Dollinger. The anatomist and artist Joseph Eduard d' Alton participated in Würzburg at the developmental work Pander by not only created the copper plates for his work on the development of the chicken.

In 1823 he accepted a professorship at the medical school in Munich and moved in 1826 to the anatomy of the university, as these had been transferred from Landshut to Munich. Since 1823 he was also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Munich.

Scientific achievements

Dollinger had an extensive general education, was a master of anatomical engineering and one of the first to recognize the beginning of the 19th century the importance of the microscope in medical research and his students trained at the microscope. The importance of Dollinger is the merits that he has rendered to the embryology and comparative anatomy. It is based on his knowledge in all areas of morphology and physiology. He took the medicine as a natural science. As an example may be mentioned his treatises on the blood circulation, the secretion process and the first system of the embryo. Würzburg owes the establishment of a Zoological Society of Physiology and a flower of his medical school.

Writings (selection )

• About the metamorphosis of earth and stone types from the pebble series. Erlangen 1803.
• Ground plan of nature doctrine of the human organism. For the use in his lectures. Bamberg and Würzburg, 1805. ( Online at Google books)
• Remarks on the distribution of the finest blood vessels in the moving parts of the animal body. J. Fr Meckel 's Archiv, IV, p 186
• What is segregation and how it happens? An academic treatise. Würzburg 1819
• Memoranda of the Munich Academy VII, p 179
• Circulation of the blood. In Meckel 's Archiv. II
• Contributions to the evolution of the human brain. Frankfurt am Main, 1814.
• Abouts the radiation leaves in the human eye. Nova aeta Aca Dollinger Caes. Leop. nat. Curiosorum, IX, p 268
• Illustratio ichnograpidca fabricae oculi humani. Würzburg 1817.