Augustin Friedrich Walther

Augustin Friedrich Walther ( born October 26, 1688 in Wittenberg, † October 12, 1746 in Leipzig ) was a German physician, anatomist, and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " A.Walther ".

Life and work

The son of Michael Walther of the younger man and his wife Anna Coecilia (* 1665, † November 2, 1688 ), the daughter of Johann German man who studied since 1 May 1699 Wittenberg University and continued his studies at the University of Jena continued. From 1709 to 1711 he toured the Netherlands and England. On his return to Wittenberg, he acquired on April 30, 1712 the highest philosophical academic degree of Master of Arts and focused on the study of medicine. To this end, he moved to the University of Leipzig, where he in 1713 became a Doctor of Medicine.

In Leipzig he received his habilitation, in 1728 professor of anatomy and surgery, and in 1730 director of the Botanical Garden Leipzig. In 1732 he was city physician and professor of pathology. From 1737 he worked until his death as professor of therapy. In addition, Walther took over organizational duties at the University, and managed during the summer semesters 1725 and 1737 the Rector of Leipzig University.

He inherited the house, garden, herbarium and assets to Christian Gottlieb Ludwig. Walther made important contributions to Myology and Angiology. In the field of botany, especially his 1735 published writing Designatio plantarum quas hortus AF Walt Heri complectitur important. He described it several thousand plants growing in his private botanical garden.

Walther published his findings in the Acta Eruditorum.

Ehrentaxon

Carl Linnaeus named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Waltheria the mallow ( Malvaceae ).

Writings (selection )

Dissertationem inauguralem de secretione animal. Wittemberg, 1712 ( dissertation Johann Gottfried von Berger)
De lingua humana novis Inventis octo sublingualibus salivae Rivis, nunc ex suis fontibus glandulis sublingualibus eductis irrigua exercitatio. Leipzig, 1724
Ad anatomiam publicam cadaveris feminae morbo convulsivo ... affectae ... invitat. leipzig, 1727
De articulis, ligamentis et musculis hominis incessu statuque dirigendis fecit in Theatro Anatomico Lipsiensi observationes, Denuo recognovit, et iconibus illustravit. Leipzig, 1728
Arteries coeliacae Tabulam in anatomes studio desideratam et reliqua publici juris facit. Leipzig, 1729
Exercitatione angiologica de vasis vertebralibus observationem NOVAM inter alia tradit. Leipzig, 1730
Observationes anatomicas Selectas tres de ductu thoracico bipartito, vena bronchiali sinistra, arteria hepatica et inferior, superioris meseraicae Sobole exhibet, et panegyrin medicam indicit. 1731
Plantarum exoticarum indigenarumque index. Leipzig, 1732
Parturition monstrosi historiam et sectionem describit deinde panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1732
Paris intercostal et corporis humani vagi nervorum from utroque et ejus latere obviorum anatomist exhibet POSTQUAM expositionem cl Winslow nuperrime cum cadavere contulit atque panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1733
Observationes novas de musculis, et professionis anatomes atque chirurgiae ordinariae per decem annos administratae rationes reddit et exhibet, simul atque ad anatomist publicam viscerum sensuum organorum cadaveris masculini d XXVIII. Ian. MDCCXXXIII. lectorem invitat. Leipzig, 1733
Designatio plantarum quas hortus A. F. Walt Heri complectitur. Accedunt Novae plantarum icones XXIV Leipzig, 1735
De pulsu sanguinis in durae meningis sinu disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1737
De structura et cordis auricularum disserit panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1738
De aneurismate disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1738
Panegyrin medicam indicit et de portal vein exercitationis anatomicae partem first intention tradit. Leipzig, 1739
De hominis larynge et voce disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1740
De plantarum structura disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1740
De inflammatione disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1741
De temperamentis et deliriis disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1741
De atra bile disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1741
De sulphure et marte disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1743
De nitroso plurium medicatorum fontium sale disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1744
De Oleis vegetabilium essentialibus disserit et panegyrin medicam indicit. Leipzig, 1745

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