Ernst Friedrich Gurlt

Ernst Friedrich Gurlt ( born October 13, 1794 in Drentkau Grünberg, Silesia, † August 13, 1882 in Berlin) was a German veterinarian. He was Professor of Veterinary Anatomy in Berlin and founder of Gurltschen collection.

Life

Gurlt trained as a pharmacist and studied despite missing Baccalaureate from 1814 Medicine in Wrocław. He received a mates place in the local anatomical Institute and graduated in 1819. On the way to Vienna, where he wanted to take a degree in veterinary medicine after his graduation, he spoke in Berlin in the physiologist Rudolphi, who persuaded him to change his plans and a job as a tutor at the Berlin School of Veterinary Medicine to assume - without the appropriate training. From Gurlts employment with him this new fabric its manual of comparative anatomy of the domestic mammals emerged.

Gurlt married in 1824 Henriette Emilie Doniges. The marriage produced three sons, including Ernst Julius Gurlt, and a daughter were born. In the 32 years of his professional career, he has written numerous other writings, was a member of 24 medical or veterinary societies and Technical Director of the Veterinary School. In 1870 he retired, but that does not mean the end of his scientific work.

The Gurltsche collection

Gurlt took over the care of the horseshoe, skeletal preparations and collection of the Veterinary School in Langhansbau when he took his Repetitorenstelle in Berlin. It was at this time probably from nearly 600 specimens, and has expanded rapidly from Gurlt. In his retirement, the stock had risen to 6418 preparations.

Gurlts research and collection focus was on the field of malformations. Gurlt wrote to each piece a description and led the catalog itself particularly interesting specimens found their way into his textbook on pathological anatomy, which he brought out in 1832; others have been discussed in the magazine for the entire veterinary medicine, whose editors belonged Gurlt. This magazine is considered the first magazine for veterinarians in Germany. Between 1838 and 1870, published in this journal Gurlt also the catalog of zootomischen Museum of the Royal Veterinary School in Berlin. After Gurlt was retired, the catalog was no longer processed.

Gurlts successor Carl Friedrich Müller reduced the number of preparations because of lack of space. Much of the malformation collection was housed in the pathology and fell during the Second World War, an air raid victim.

From Gurlts collection 143 skeletons and 105 wet preparations have been preserved. You are now in the anatomical collection of the Institute of Veterinary Anatomy and are generally available during normal opening times. Part of the preparations can also be seen on the internet, as far as possible with Gurlts comments from the original catalog.

Writings

• Prussian Pharmacopoeia. Decker, Berlin 1847 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf