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Friedrich Wilhelm Theile

Born  1801
Died  1879

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German anatomist, born November 11, 1801, Buttstätt in Grossherzogthum Sachsen-Weimar; died October 20, 1879.

Biography of Friedrich Wilhelm Theile

Friedrich Wilhelm Theile attended the University of Jena in 1819 to study philology. However, he soon changed to medicine and obtained his doctorate at Jena in the autumn of 1825. He then stayed for a period of time in Göttingen, before settling as a practitioner and a lecturer of anthropology at the University of Jena.

Besides this, in 1828 in assosciation with professors Friedrich August Walch (1780-1837) and Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Wackenroder (1798-1854), he took charge of the pharmaceutical institute that had been established by professor Carl Christian Traugott Friedemann Goebel (1794 – 1851). Here Theile lectured on pharmaceutical substances and the history of apothecary.

Early in 1831 he was appointed professor extraordinary at Jena, and in 1834 he accepted an invitation to become professor of anatomy at the newly founded University of Bern. He remained in this position for twenty years.

From 1853, now appointed medical counsellor and member of the Medicinal-Commission, he he practiced medicine in Weimar, but spent most of his time on literary work.

Besides publishing scientific works of his own, Theile translated important foreign works into German. Many of these translations were published in Carl Christian Schmidt's (1792-1855) Jahrbücher der in- und ausländischen gesammten Medicin. This included reviews of the anatomy and physiology of the heart; gross anatomy, physiology and pathology of the lymphatic systsem, on ctretinismus, and on microcephaly.

Bibliography

    Translations:
  • Die physikalischen Untersuchungsmethoden nach Roger und Hughes.
    Weimar, 1855.
  • Louis Jean François Delasiauve (1804-1893):
    Die Epilepsie. Aus dem Französischen. Weimar 1855.
    Original title: Traité de l'épilepsie.
  • Frans Cornelis Donders (1818-1889):
    Die Physiologie des Menschen.
    Aus dem Holländischen. Leipzig, 1856; 2nd edition 1859.
    Original title: Naturkunde van den Mensch.
  • Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk (1797-1862):
    Bau und Functionen der Medulla Spinalis und Oblongata und nächste Ursache und Rationelle Behandlung der Epilepsie.
    Braunschweig, 1859. Aus dem Holländischen.
  • Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879):
    Vergehen gegen die Sittlichkeit. Aus dem Französischen. Weimar 1860.
    Original title: Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs. Paris, 1857.
  • Pieter Harting (1812-1885):
    Das Mikroskop. Aus dem Holländischen. 1st edition 1959; 2nd edition 1867.
  • Auguste Ambroise Tardieu:
    Die Vergiftungen in gerichtsärztlicher und klinischer Beziehung. Der gerichtlich-chemische Theil bearbeitet von Z. Roussin. Aus dem Französischen, im Vereine mit H. Ludwig.
    Erlangen 1868.
    Original: Étude médico-légale et clinique sur l'empoisonnement . . . avec la collaboration de Z. Roussin. Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1867.
    Referring to François Zacharie Roussin (1827-1894). Works by Friedrich Wilhelm Theile:
  • De Musculis nervisque laryngeis.
    Inaugural dissertation, Jena: Schreiber, 1825. 39 pages.
  • De musculis rotatoriis dorsi. Bern, 1835.
  • Die Lehere von den Muskeln und Gefässen des menschlichen Körpers.
    Volume 3 of the 2nd edition of Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring's (1755-1830) Vom Bau des menschlichen Körpers, 1841.
  • Ueber den Nutzen physiologischer Versuche an Thieren für die Heilkunde und über die Vorurtheile gegen solche Versuche. Bern, 1842.
  • Anatomische Untersuchungen eines Hypospadiaeus. Archiv fur Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin, Berlin, 1847: 17-32.
  • Gewichtsbestimmungen zur Entwicklung des Muskelsystems und des Skelettes beim Menschen.
    Aus Theiles nachgelassenen Papieren herausgegeben von Prof. W. His.
    Verhandlungen der kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher, volume 46, 1884. Halle : Engelmann, 1884.
    Referring to Wilhelm His (1831-1904).
  • Leber. In: Rudolf Wagner (1805-1864): Handwörterbuch der Physiologie mit Rücksicht auf physiologische Pathologie. Volume 2, 1844.
  • Ueber Mikrocephalie. Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin, Leipzig und Heidelberg, 3. Reihe, volume 11, 1861.

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