Ludwig Lewin Jacobson

Ludwig Levin Jacobson ( born January 10, 1783 in Copenhagen, † August 29, 1843 ) was a Danish physician.

Life

Jacobson - a member of the Jewish community - first attended a German secondary school in Stockholm. However, he decided to study medicine, which he studied at the Royal Surgical Academy in Copenhagen. 1804 Jacobson became the C.B. and M. D. graduated. In 1806 he was an assistant in 1807 and worked as a chemistry teacher. From 1807 to 1810 he worked as a tutor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen.

At the British attack on Copenhagen in 1807, Jacobson did his service as a medical officer in a military hospital of the Masonic Lodge. According to the Danish capitulation began his intensive anatomical research, which earned him the rank of regimental surgeon and a royal grant for a research trip through the German Empire and France. During his stay in Paris, he studied practical medicine and surgery. After him in 1813, the Danish government even allowed to know the medical care system within the French army. In 1814 - after the Battle of the Nations in October 1813 - talked to Jacobson in a field hospital in Leipzig. In the same year he returned to Denmark and received an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine and Surgery, Christian- Albrechts -University of Kiel - the city belonged temporarily to the Danish dominions. 1816 appointed him the university professor. A professor at the University of Copenhagen Jacobson had been offered under the condition of conversion to the Christian faith, which was rejected by him. At a meeting of scientists, organized for the first time in 1822 in Christiania, Jacobson was not allowed to participate because of his Jewish ancestry, because at that time Norway did not allow residence of Jews in their country. - In Denmark, Jacobson was a royal private physician.

Work

Jacobson made ​​several anatomical and zoological discoveries that are named after him:

He also designed an instrument for lithotrity ( Methodus lithoclastica ), a method for crushing of bladder stones. The instrument was developed by Guillaume Dupuytren.

Honors

• 1811: Silver Medal of the Danish Society of Sciences for the discovery of the vomeronasal organ.
• 1829: Appointed Knight of the Dannebrog.
• 1833: Awarded the Prix Monthyon for his kidney research on birds and reptiles.
• 1836: Silver Medal of the Dannebrog and honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Denmark.

Publications (selection )

• Undersògelser over the Steensen'ske Næsekirtel hos Pattedyr above Fugle. Copenhagen 1813
• Nyreportaaresystemet hos Fisk og Krybdyr padder. Copenhagen 1813, 2nd edition 1821
• Primordialnyrerne. Copenhagen 1830
• Primordialkraniet Copenhagen 1842.

Swell

• Jewish Encyclopedia
• Jacobson. In: Heinrich August Pierer, Julius Lobe (eds.): Universal Dictionary of the past and present. 4th edition. Vol 8, Altenburg 1859, p 700 (online at zeno.org ).