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Christoph Theodor Aeby

Born  1835-02-25
Died  1885-07-07

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Swiss anatomist, born February 25, 1835, Guttenbrunnen, Pfalsburg; died July 7, 1885, Bilin.

Biography of Christoph Theodor Aeby

Christoph Theodor Aeby
Born in Pfalsburg, Aeby was raised in Basel, where he studied from 1853 to 1856, then undertook two years of further studies in Göttingen. He received his doctorate in Basel in 1858, was habilitated the same year, and soon afterwords became prosector. In 1863 he became ausserordentlicher professor in Basel, and in the automn that year was called to Bern as ordentlicher professor of anatomy. In 1884 he accepted an invitation to Prague as ordinarius of anatomy, replacing Karl Toldt (1840-1920) who had been called to Vienna. Due to poor health, however, he died already the next year.

A restless man of high working capacity, Aeby was considered an important contributor to microscopic anatomy, comparative anatomy, osteology and the anatomy of the eye.

We thank Grace E. Jacobs and Patrick Jucker-Kupper for information submitted.

Bibliography

  • Die Symphysis ossium pubis des Menschen. Nebst Beiträgen zur Lehre vom hyalinen Knorpel und seiner Verknöcherung.
    Inaugural dissertation as Dozent in Basel.
    88 pages. Leipzig & Heidelberg, C. F. Winter, 1858.
  • Eine neue Methode zur Bestimmung der Schädelform von Menschen und Säugethieren. Braunschweig, 1863.
  • Ueber die Sphäroidgelenke der Extremitätengürtel. 1863.
  • Bemerkungen über die Bildung des Schädels und der Extremitäten im Menschengeschlecht.
    Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. Probably 1863.
  • Ueber den feineren Bau der Blutcapillaren. 1865.
  • Ueber die Reizung der quergestreiften Muskelfasern durch Kettenströme. 1867.
  • Der Bau des menschlichen Körpers mit besonderer Rücksicht auf seine morphologische und physiologische Bedeutung. Ein Lehrbuch der Anatomie für Aerzte und studirende.
    Illustrated. 103 pages. Leipzig, F. C. W. Vogel, 1868-1871.
  • Ueber den Grund der Unveränderlichkeit der organischen Knochensubstanz, sowie über deren normale und abnorme Zusammensetzung. 1871.
  • Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der Knochen, resp. Die Structur der Spongiosa.
    1872-1874.
  • Die Altersverschiedenheiten der Wirbelsäule. 1873.
  • Ueber das Kiefergerüst der Vögel. 1873.
  • Die Gestalt des Bronchialbaums.
  • Ueber Gelenk und Luftdruck, sowie über die Sesambeine der menschlichen Hand. 1875.
  • Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Gelenke. 1876.
  • Ueber den Einfluss des Winterschlafes auf die Zusammensetzung der verschiedenen Organe des Körpers.
    Archiv für experimentelle Patholgie und Pharmakologie, Leipzig, volume III.
  • Ueber die Musculatur der menschlichen Mundspalte. 1879.
  • Ueber das leitende Princip bei der Differenzirung der Gelenke. 1872. Obituaries:
  • Siegmund Mayer (1842-1919) in Prager medicinische Wochenschrift, 1885, 28: 265-267.
  • Wilhelm His (1831-1904) in Correspondenz-Blatt für Schweizer Aerzte, Basel, 1885, 21: 513.

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