August von Froriep
| Born | 1849 |
| Died | 1917 |
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German physician, born September 10, 1849, Weimar; died October 11, 1917, Tübingen.
Biography of August von Froriep
August von Froriep came from a family of scholarly men. He studied in Göttingen, Tübingen, and Leipzig, where he obtained his doctorate in 1874. He was an assistant in Leipzig under Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831-1892), and in 1878 became prosector in Tübingen. He became professor extraordinary in Tübingen in 1884 and in 1895 succeeded Wilhelm Henke (1834-1896) as ordinarius. He retired on April 1, 1917 and died in October that year.
A large part of his publications concern the morphology and developmental history of the head and the vertebra.
Bibliography
- Kurzgefasste Anatomie. Mechanik und Proportionslehre des menschlichen Körpers. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1880.
- Anatomie für Künstler. Kurzgefasstes Lehrbuch der Anatomie, Mechanik, Mimik und Proportionslehre des menschlichen Körpers.
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel. 2nd revised and expanded edition, 1890. 3rd edition, 1899.
From 3rd or 4th edition published by Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig.
5th edition 1917, 6th edition 1922, 7th edition 1937.
- Zur Kenntnis der Lagebeziehungen zwischen Grosshirn und Schädeldach bei Menschen verschiedener Kopfform. Leipzig, 1897.
- Die Lehre Franz Joseph Galls, burteilt nach dem Stand der heutigen Kenntnisse. Leipzig, 1911.
- Anatomische Wandtafeln für den Aktsaal. Leipzig, 1911.
- Der Schädel Friedrich von Schillers und des Dichters Begräbnisstätte.
Leipzig, Bart, 1913. - Schädel, Totenmaske und Antlitz des Hoffräuleins Luise von Göchhausen.
Leipzig, 1917.