August Rauber

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August Rauber (1841–1917)

August Rauber (March 9, 1841 – February 16, 1917) was a German

embryologist born in Obermoschel in the Rhineland-Palatinate
.

Rauber was born the fourth of five children to Stephan Rauber and Rosalie née Oberlé.

Nicolaus Rüdinger (1832–1896) and Julius Kollmann (1834–1918).[2]

Career

In 1869 he obtained his habilitation, and in 1872 worked as a dissector at the

Wilhelm His (1831–1904). From 1873 to 1886 he was an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Leipzig.[2]

In 1886, he became a professor of anatomy and head of the anatomical institute at the University of Dorpat.[2] He worked as a professor in Tartu (Dorpat) for 25 years and also started the anatomy collection of the University of Tartu.

In his studies involving the

embryonic disk in developing animals.[4]

He is buried to the New St. John's Cemetery in Tartu.

Partial list of publications

  • Vater'sche Körperchen der Bänder- und Periostnerven und ihre Beziehung zum sog. Muskelsinne (1865).
  • Untersuchungen über das Vorkommen und die Bedeutung der Vaterschen Körperchen (1867).
  • Elasticität und Festigkeit der Knochen, 1876 - Elasticity and strength of bones.
  • Über den Ursprung der Milch und die Ernährung der Frucht im Allgemeinen (1879).
  • Urgeschichte der Menschen, (two volumes) 1884 - Prehistory of man.
  • Homo sapiens ferus (1885) -
    Homo sapiens
    ferus.
  • Oder die Zustände der Verwilderten und ihre Bedeutung für Wissenschaft, Politik und Schule (1885).
  • Über die Bedeutung der wissenschaftlichen Anatomie, 1886 - On the importance of scientific anatomy.
  • Atlas der Krystallregeneration (four volumes), 1896/97 - Atlas of "crystal regeneration".
  • Die Aufgaben des Lebens (1896).
  • Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen (two volumes) - Textbook of
    human anatomy - (5th edition 1897/98), continued by Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch (1868-1955).[5][6]


Bibliography

  • Maie Toomsalu, The Legend is Alive: August Antonius Rauber, Professor of Anatomy, University of Tartu, Tartu 2020, pp. 183

References

  1. PMID 1605361
    .
  2. ^ a b c Drw.saw-leipzig.de (biography)
  3. PMID 16586344
    .
  4. ^ Mondofacto Dictionary Definition of eponym
  5. ^ Open Library Rauber's Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen
  6. ^ Google Books Rauber-Kopsch Lehrbuch und Atlas der Anatomie des Menschen: Eingewiede Nervensystem Sinnersorgane

External links

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