Abraham Vater

Abraham 's father ( born December 9, 1684 Wittenberg, † November 18, 1751 ) was a German physician and philosopher.

Life

Abraham 's father was born on December 9, 1684 was the son of the Wittenberg University professor of medicine Christian father in Wittenberg. His mother, Regina Dorothea came from the family of the theologian Abraham Calov, bringing his family ties to the University of Wittenberg were closely linked. After receiving einfängliche education by private tutors and at the high school in Merseburg, he took in 1702 to study medicine at Wittenberg University, where he earned a Masters 1706, the philosophical. In 1709 he was included among the candidates of medicine, moved to the University of Leipzig, returned to Wittenberg in 1710, and received there the medical doctor degree.

Long-term study trips then took him to various German universities, to England, Amsterdam and Leiden, where he undertook in-depth anatomical studies and made ​​himself familiar especially with the injection technique. In June 1711 he returned to Wittenberg back and his habilitation in 1712 as a lecturer at the University of Wittenberg and held private lectures. In 1717 he was appointed as an associate and in 1719 a full professor of anatomy and botany, at the selfsame University. His election as a member of the Leopoldina was 1712.

In 1733, he devoted himself especially to the anatomy and founded on 1 May 1736 anatomical museum of the University of Wittenberg in Augusteum. 1737 he was appointed professor of pathology in 1746 he became the first professor of therapy and remained there until his death on November 18, 1751 Senior of the medical faculty at Wittenberg University.

Work

Abraham father's name is still present today in the medical terminology. Father was regarded as excellent academics, under whose care and guidance in Wittenberg 52 promotions were stored. His many works concerning the botany, chemistry, pharmacology, pathology, therapy, surgery, gynecology and state for pharmacy. Especially his 1720 published description of the mouth of the bile duct into the small intestine, which hardly agrees with the findings of today's physicians, has entered into the history of medicine. This anatomical structure has been designated in memory of the Wittenberg anatomists as " papilla of Vater ".

In this papilla is a complex locking mechanism in the anatomy, pathology and physiology plays an important role and from which the three institutions pancreas, gallbladder and duodenum depend. In a dissertation at Lehmann " De humani corporis consensu partrium " ( Wittenberg, 1741), father describes also known under his name, then forgotten and by Pacini in the third decade of the 19th century he was rediscovered, so-called Pacinian 's corpuscles as small oval swellings " papillae nerveae ". These structures are responsible .. especially on palms and soles for the vibration sense

Furthermore notable dissertations can be found in the treatises on the mechanism of closure of the foramen ovale ( 1714), a salivary duct in the tongue (1720, 1723), a circular muscle at the uterus reason (1723 ). A largely complete list of publications father is in the Bio Medicale Volume 7 page 400-403. Early on, put father descriptive directories of exotic plants, other natural products, and anatomical specimens.

He read in addition to anatomy and botany. It is due to that the slide collection of the well-known Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, in which he had once studied, came to the University of Wittenberg. Thus, his lectures were enriched by this, the university as well as by his private collection. These three academic collections were eventually housed in a special room in Augusteum. After the union of the University of Wittenberg with the University of Halle in 1817 reached a part of the collection in the Anatomical Institute in Halle.

Besides the already mentioned means of an anatomical museum's father has rendered outstanding services to the raising of the relevant teaching in Wittenberg, which he held anatomical demonstrations for women. Abraham father made ​​numerous sections for his scientific work. However, difficulties were the supply of corpses. Since 1722 the Academy was granted to be able to pick up the bodies of executed prisoners and also of the deceased in the hospital for the anatomy when the funeral expenses were provided by the relatives. The collection of corpses and the cost of funeral later had to wear even the professors. Already in 1748 called for the establishment of Abraham father of a clinical institute for teaching.

Family

Father married on January 13, 1716 in Wittenberg Sophia Magdalene (nee Zimmermann), the Office of the pension administrator Samuel Francke widow. This marriage remained childless. His second marriage he left on 24 February 1740 in Dresden with Maria Christina, daughter of the Saxon Court Councillor Marperger. This marriage remained childless.

Ehrentaxon

Carl Linnaeus named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Vateria the wing fruit plants ( Dipterocarpaceae ).

Works

• Catalogus plantarum horti inprimis exoticarum academici Wittenbergensis. (1721-1724)
• Catalogus Variorum Exoticorum Rarissimorum maximam partem Incognitorum ... quae in museo suo, brevi luci exponendo possidet Abraham father. ( Wittenberg, 1726)