Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
Portrait by Wendelin Moosbrugger
Born28 January 1755 (1755-01-28)
Thorn (Toruń), Royal Prussia (now Toruń, Poland)
Died2 March 1830 (1830-03-03) (aged 75)
Frankfurt am Main
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine
Doctoral advisorErnst Gottfried Baldinger

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German

lungs
, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists.

Career

Portrait by Karl Thelott

Sömmerring was born in

University of St. Petersburg, but accepted in 1804 an invitation from the Academy of Science of Bavaria, in Munich
. In this city, he became counselor to the court and was led into the Bavarian nobility.

When Sömmerring was 23 years old he described the organization of the cranial nerves as part of this doctoral work: its study is still valid today. He published many writings in the fields of medicine, anatomy and neuroanatomy, anthropology, paleontology, astronomy and philosophy. Among other things he wrote about fossil crocodiles and in 1812 he described Ornithocephalus antiquus now known as Pterodactylus. He was also the first to accurately draw a representation of the female skeleton structure.

In addition, Sömmerring was a very creative inventor, having designed a

sunspots and many diverse other things. In 1811 he developed the first telegraphic system in Bavaria, which is housed today in the German Museum of Science in Munich. In 1823, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
.

Sömmering was married to Margarethe Elizabeth Grunelius (deceased 1802), and had a son, Dietmar William, and a daughter, Susanne Katharina. Due to bad weather, Sömmering left Munich in 1820 and returned to Frankfurt, where he died in 1830. He is buried at the city's main cemetery.

A subspecies of the

Johann Fischer von Waldheim.[1]

Works

  • Über die körperliche Verschiedenheit des Mohren vom Europär (1784)
  • Vom Hirn- und Rückenmark (Mainz 1788, 2. Aufl. 1792);
  • Vom Bau des menschlichen Körpers (Frankfurt am Main 1791–96, 6 Bde.; 2. Aufl. 1800; neue Aufl. von Bischoff, Henle u. a., Leipzig 1839–45, 8 Bde.);
  • De corporis humani fabrica (Frankfurt am Main 1794–1801, 6 Bde.);
  • De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani (Frankfurt am Main 1795);
  • Tabula sceleti feminini (Frankfurt am Main 1798);
  • Abbildungen des menschlichen Auges (Frankfurt am Main 1801),
  • Abbildungen des menschlichen Hörorgans (Frankfurt am Main 1806),
  • Abbindungen des menschlichen Organs des Geschmacks und der Stimme (Frankfurt am Main 1806),
  • Abbildungen der menschlichen Organe des Geruchs (1809).

The exchange of letters between Sömmering and Georg Forster was published by Hettner (Braunschweig, 1878)eben.

Bibliography

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  • Klemme, H.; Kuehn, M., eds. (2016). "Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (1755–1830)". The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers. Continuum. pp. 727–730.
  • Wagner, R. Sömmerings Leben und Verkehr mit Zeitgenossen (Leipzig 1844).

References

  1. ^ Fischer, G. (1811). "Notice sur la Choucas de la Russie". Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (in French). 1: 3. Retrieved 2019-02-20.

External links

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