Louis Bolk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Bolk

Dutch anatomist

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1866

Place of Birth: Overschie, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1930

Profession: biologist, university teacher, anatomist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Lodewijk 'Louis' Bolk (December 10, 1866, Overschie – June 17, 1930, Amsterdam) was a Dutch anatomist who created the fetalization theory about the human body.
It states that when a human being is born, it is still a fetus, as can be seen if one pays attention to its (proportionally) big head, to its uncoordinated motility or to its absolute helplessness, for instance.
Furthermore, this "prematuration" is specifically human. Gavin de Beer and Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory, which is sometimes called neoteny.Also Jacques Lacan took Bolk's fetalization theory into account in order to introduce his own thesis on the mirror stage.