Dietrich Barfurth

(Karl) Dietrich (Gerhard ) Barfurth ( born January 25, 1849 in Dinslaken, † March 23, 1927 in Rostock) was a German physician, anatomist, mathematician and twice Rector of the University of Rostock.

Life

Barfurth was born as a son of the same name Dietrich Weber Barfurth. He matriculated in 1871 at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen and studied natural sciences and mathematics, which he graduated in 1874 with a doctorate and 1875 the state exam. After studying Barfurth taught as a senior teacher at the Gymnasium in Cologne, before he took up in 1879 to study medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 1882 he received his doctorate of medicine. In the same year Barfurth graduated from the medical state examination in 1883 and habilitated in anatomy. From 1888 was Barfurth prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Göttingen under Friedrich Merkel. In 1889 he accepted a professorship of comparative anatomy, histology and embryology at the University of Dorpat. In 1896, Dietrich Barfurth was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Anatomical Institute at the University of Rostock, where he remained until his retirement in 1921.

Besides serving as director of the Anatomical Institute, Dietrich Barfurth was elected in 1902 and in 1917 rector of the University of Rostock. His work impressed with not only the anatomy in Rostock, but his work regeneration and transplantation ( 1917) and methods for the study of regeneration in animals ( 1920), the field of developmental mechanics. In recognition of his scientific merits Barfurth was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1926.

During his studies, he became in 1871 a member of the fraternity Brunsviga in Göttingen, whose honorary member in 1890; also he was a member of the fraternity Alemannia Bonn (1882 ) and the fraternity Obotritia Rostock.