Wilhelm Krause

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Krause ( born July 12, 1833 in Hannover, † February 4, 1910 in Charlottenburg ) was a German professor of anatomy.

Life and career

Wilhelm Krause, son of the director of the Obermedizinalkollegiums Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause in Hanover, began to study medicine in the summer semester 1851 in Göttingen. Here he joined the fraternity Hannovera. He continued his studies continued in Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Zurich; he received his doctorate for Dr. med 1854 in Göttingen.

He then worked for several years at hospitals in Hannover. In 1860 he received a teaching assignment for normal and pathological anatomy at the University of Göttingen and shortly thereafter became an associate professor. In 1883 he submitted his monograph " The Anatomy of the Rabbit " at the University of Leipzig and was thus also to Dr. phil. doctorate. From 1865 to 1891 he served as Assessor Member of the Physical Class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. As of January 1892, he was Executive Laboratory and at the same time charged with the exercise of Kustodengeschäfte of the Anatomical Institute of the University of Berlin.

On 31 May 1892, Wilhelm Krause habilitation in Berlin; then he was appointed full professor of anatomy. In 1897 he undertook a study tour to Australia for the purpose of anthropological studies.

His diverse research results he published in over 100 publications, in part as monographs, partly in medical journals. It dealt not only with anatomical problems, but also worked in other areas of medicine, such as in the field of development history. He also undertook studies in animals. In 1860 he discovered the named him after Kraus 's end bulbs ( cold receptors of the skin).

The begun by his father, three -volume handbook of human anatomy he edited from the third edition of 1876. This work has been translated into Hungarian and French. In 1899 he published his Manual of Human Anatomy. Wilhelm Krause played a major role with regard to the standardization of anatomical nomenclature.

Honors

Awarded the title of Secret Medizinalrat

Publications (selection)

  • The refractive indices of the transparent media of the eye, Hannover 1855
  • The terminal corpuscles of simple sensory nerves, Hannover 1860
  • The trichinosis and its prevention, Göttingen 1863
  • Varieties of the arteries and veins, Brunswick 1866
  • About the allantois of the people, in: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine, 1875, pp. 215-216
  • The Anatomy of the Rabbit. In topographic and operational consideration processed, 2nd Edition, W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1883
  • Handbook of human anatomy, several editions until 1880, 3 volumes, Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover
  • Handbook of Human Anatomy with synonymous register, S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899
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