Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Behn ( born December 25, 1808 in Kiel, † May 14, 1878 in Dresden ) was a German anatomist and zoologist. He worked from 1833 to 1867 as a professor at the University of Kiel, where he served as rector in 1865. From 1870 to 1878 he was the successor of Carl Gustav Carus of the 14th President of the Imperial Leopoldinisch - Carolinischen German Academy of Natural Scientists.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Behn was born in 1808 in Kiel and in 1828 studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and at the University of Kiel, where he also received his doctorate in 1832. Following his appointment as Assistant Professor in 1833, he was appointed four years later in Kiel associate professor of anatomy and physiology as well as Director of the Institute of Anatomy and the Zoological Museum. In 1834, he studied medicine in Paris. At this time the medicine in France was marked by a scientific approach. He established a wide network of personal and epistolary contacts about Guillaume Dupuytren, Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille and other members of the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France ..

With the Danish corvette Galathea 1845 he began a circumnavigation of the world, that he gave in February 1847 dropped out in favor of a research trip to South America. After he returned to Kiel in 1848, he was promoted in the same year as a full professor of anatomy and zoology. In 1860, he acted as deputy to the University of Kiel Holstein 's national assembly, five years later, he served as rector of the university. After he had retired in October 1867 as an expression of his protest against the annexation of Holstein by Prussia and the formation of the Prussian province of Schleswig -Holstein from his professorship, he worked from 1870 to 1878 as President of the Imperial Leopoldinisch - Carolinischen German Academy of Natural Scientists in which he had been taken in 1848. He died in 1878 in Dresden, the scientific evaluation of his research expedition remained unfinished.

Writings (selection )

• George Cuvier's letters to C. H. Pfaff from the years 1788 to 1792, natural historical, political and literary content. Kiel 1845 (as Editor)
• Prof. R. Owen's osteology of the dodo ( Didus ineptus, L.). Dresden 1868
• Mr. Medicinal Rath Dr. Friedrich chefs and the Leopoldinisch - Carolinian Academy of Sciences. Hamburg 1869