Otto Kohlrausch

Otto Ludwig Bernhard Kohlrausch ( born March 20, 1811 in Barmen, † November 14, 1854 in Hannover ) was a German physician. He described the plica transversalis recti (also Kohlrausch - fold ), the middle and largest of the rectal folds.

Otto Kohlrausch came from a German academic family, which also includes the physicist Friedrich Kohlrausch, the criminal lawyer Edward Kohlrausch and sports medicine Wolfgang Kohlrausch.

He studied at the University of Bonn Natural Sciences, from 1830 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen medicine. In 1835 he settled as a physician in Hanover, and made a name for himself as a surgeon. In 1841 he directed on behalf of the government a sanatorium in Bad Rehburg.

He rose to become the Royal Hofchirurgen and was from 1847 medical officer in the upper - Medical College.

Works

In addition to numerous articles, including in the Gottingen scholar ads, he authored several books:

• Physiology and chemistry in their current position (Göttingen 1844)
• On the anatomy and physiology of the pelvic organs (Leipzig 1854)

• Physician (19th century)
• Surgeon
• Born in 1811
• Died in 1854
• Man
• Person (Hannover)