Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann - bibliography

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Biography

German physiologist, born July 18, 1801, Zschortau, Sachsen; died July 21, 1877, Halle an der Saale.

Bibliography

  • Observatio biologica de magnetismo animali.
    Doctoral dissertation, Leipzig, 1826.
  • Anatomia animalum. 2 volumes; Leipzig, 1831-1833.
  • De colubri natricis generatione. Commentatio qua orationem ad suscipendum munus professoris extraordinarii medicinae die V. Julii MDCCCXXXIV.
    Lipsiae, typis Breitkopfio-Haertelianis. Alfredus Guilielmus Volkmann.
  • Neue Beiträge zur Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes.
    Leipzig, 1836.
  • Die Lehre von dem leiblichen Leben des Menschen.
    Leipzig, 1837.
  • Die Selbständigkeit des sympathischen Nervensystems durch anatomiache Untersuchungen nachgewiesen.
    With Friedrich Heinrich Bidder.
    Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1842.
  • Die Hämodynamik nach Versuchen.
    Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1850.
  • Physiologische Untersuchungen im Gebiet der Optik.
    2 booklets, Leipzig, 1863-1864.
  • Lars-Burkhardt Sturm:
    Die humananatomische Sammlung des Instituts für Anatomie und Zellbiologie zu Halle/Saale - ihre Geschichte und ihr Präparationsprofil unter den Direktoren Eduard d`Alton (1803-1854), Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801-1877) und Hermann Welcker (1822-1897).
    Doctoral dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1998.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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