Hermann Welcker

Hermann Welcker ( born April 8, 1822 in Giessen, † September 12, 1897 in Winterstein, Thuringian Forest ) was a German anatomist and university professor. From 1876 to 1897 he headed the Anatomical Institute of the University of Halle

Life

Welcker came from a scholar - officials and family and grew up in Gießen and Darmstadt. He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Giessen. In his study places, he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Giessen ( 1841) and Palatia Bonn (1847 ).

In 1851 he received his doctorate in Giessen with the work About irradiation and some other phenomena of seeing Dr. med. In 1853 followed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. In 1859 he became an associate professor and prosector at the University of Halle, in 1866 he was appointed full professor. In 1876, he was followed by Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann after as director of the Anatomical Institute. In the time of his Board of the new building of the Anatomical Institute falls. He remained until 1897 Director of the Institute. He became the go. Appointed medical officer.

Works

1850s - 1860s

  • Instructions for the use of the blood- stain Scala, an agent for the study of the blood coloring matter content. In addition to a copies of the Scala, several sample spots and a number of empty Feldchen the execution of samples. Giessen: J. Ricker, 1854.
  • About storage of microscopic objects: in addition to communications on the microscope and its accessories. In order of the Society for Microscopy to Giessen. Giessen: J. Ricker, 1856.
  • General conditions of Schädelwachsthums and Schädelbaues normal skull German tribe. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1862.
  • About two rarer deformities of the human skull, and Scaphocephalus Trigonocephalus, and on the question of the exchange ratios existing between brain size and mental ability. Hall: H. W. Schmit, 1863.
  • Size, number, volume, surface and color of the blood cells in humans and in animals. Leipzig: Printed by E. Polz.
  • Concerning the development and construction of the skin and hair in Bradypus along with communications on a living inside the sloth hair algae. Hall: H. W. Schmidt, 1864.
  • Kraniologische Mittheilungen. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1866.

1870 - 1890

  • Cribra orbi talia, an ethno - diagnostic feature in the skull of several races of man. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and pressure of son, 1887.
  • Two expedients in demonstration of the brain and the heart. Berlin: printed and published by G. Reimer, [ 1878 ?].
  • The asymmetries of the nose and Nasenskeletes. Stuttgart: Cotta Bookstore, 1882.
  • Schiller 's skull and Todt mask, along with communications on skulls and death- mask of Kant. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1883.
  • The morphological significance of the first thumb member. Halis: Hendel, 1884.
  • The skull of Raphael and the Rafael portraits. Send letter to Privy Council Professor Dr. H. Schaaffhausen. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg and Son, 1884.
  • The Capacität and the three major diameter of the cranium in the various nations ... Braunschweig, F. Vieweg and Son, 1885.
  • On the skull of Dante. A letter from Hermann Welcker ... to Dr. J. Barnard Davis. In 1886.
  • For a critique of Schiller skull: a contribution to craniological diagnostics. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1887.
  • Abnormal cranial sutures in humans and anthropomorphic. Leipzig 1892.
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