Ernst Julius Richard Ewald

Ernst Julius Richard Ewald ( born February 14, 1855 in Berlin, † July 22, 1921 in Konstanz ) was a German physiologist.

Ewald was from 1892 a member of the Leopoldina and from 1900 as a professor in Strasbourg.

He worked in the fields of respiratory and circulatory physiology. In 1899 he founded the sound picture theory of hearing.

His brother is the internist Carl Anton Ewald.

Works

  • The normal Athmungsdruck and its curves
  • A new method to measure the pressure in the lungs
  • Is the lung air-tight? ( with Rudolf Kobert )
  • About the behavior of Säugethierherzens when air is blown into the same
  • The consequences of cerebral surgery on animals without labyrinth
  • The dog with a shortened spinal cord
  • Physiological studies on the nerve end organ Octavus (1892 )
  • The physiology of the larynx (1896 )
  • For the physiology of the labyrinth
  • A new theory of hearing (1899 ).
  • Ewald, JR (1922 ): Sound Images theory and epistemology. Z. Sinnesphysiol. 53, 213-217.
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