Carl Rabl

Carl Rabl ( born 2 May 1853 in Wels, Austria, † December 24, 1917 in Leipzig) was an Austrian zoologist, anatomist and university teachers.

Life

Carl Rabl came from a Bavarian family of doctors, who had emigrated in the 18th century to Upper Austria. He attended the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmuenster and studied medicine and zoology at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig and Jena. He received his doctorate in 1882 in Vienna as MD and qualified as a year later for descriptive anatomy. After two years as a lecturer, he was in 1885 appointed Associate Professor appointed.

In 1886 he was appointed the ( outsourced ) German Charles-Ferdinand University in the Department of Anatomy. 1890/91 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1903/ 04 President of the University. In 1904, he joined as the successor of Wilhelm His to the University of Leipzig. In 1917 he became Professor Emeritus.

Rabl made ​​important contributions to cell research, fertilization, gastrulation and germ layer formation. The illustrations of his publications he drew himself He developed the theory of the constancy of chromosomes. Thrice struck Hans Chiari 1902-1910 Rabl in vain for the Nobel Prize for Medicine ago.

Was married Rabl since 1891 with Marie, born Virchow, a daughter of Rudolf Virchow. He was an honorary member of the Prague University shank singer Bard.

Memberships

  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • Prussian Academy of Sciences

Honors

  • Councillor (1902 )
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Oslo (1911 )

Writings (selection )

  • About cell division. Morphological Yearbook, Vol 10, 1885. Digitalisat
  • Theory of the mesoderm, 1897.
  • About the construction and development of the lens, 1900.
  • The development of the face, Vol 1 ( 1906).
  • History of anatomy at the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 1909.
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