Arnold Adolph Berthold

Arnold Adolf Berthold (also: Arnold Adolph Berthold, born February 26, 1803 in Soest, † January 3, 1861 in Göttingen ) was a German physiologist and zoologist and professor at the University of Göttingen.

Life

He studied at Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1823 for Dr. med and went to Berlin the following year and in 1825 to Paris. In 1825 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen and worked as a general practitioner. In 1829 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. In 1835 he became associate professor in 1836 and full professor of physiological anatomy and natural history at the University of Göttingen. His 1849 conducted experiments that showed that castration of male chicks prevented their development as taps, made ​​him a pioneer of endocrinology.

He made contributions to physiology, zoology and anatomy. In 1837 he became a member of the Imperial Societät.

Berthold Medal

In his honor, awarded the German Society of Endocrinology year since 1980 the Berthold Medal, which is connected to a scientific lecture, the Berthold -Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Society.

Works

• Pierre André Latreille: Natural families of the animal kingdom / from the French. With notes and additions by A. A. Berthold. . Weimar 1827 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.11652
• The upright appearance of facial objects despite the reversed stationary pattern the same on the retina of the eye. Göttingen 1830.
• Textbook of physiology of humans and animals. Second edition. Göttingen 1837.
• Robert Bunsen, Arnold Adolph Berthold: ferric hydroxide, the antidote of the white arsenic or arsenious acid. 2nd edition of Göttingen, 1837.
• Over several new or rare species of amphibians. Göttingen:. 's Dieterich 's Bookstore, 1842 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5510
• Textbook of zoology. Göttingen 1845.
• Several new or rare reptiles from New Granada. Dieterischsche bookstore, Göttingen 1846 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5485