Friedrich Schlemm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Friedrich Schlemm

German anatomist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1795

Place of Birth: Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 27-May-1858

Profession: biologist, university teacher, anatomist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Friedrich Schlemm

  • Friedrich Schlemm (11 December 1795 – 27 May 1858) was a German anatomist who was professor at the University of Berlin. He was born in Salzgitter.
  • As his family could not afford higher education, he was apprenticed to a barber-surgeon in Braunschweig.
  • This gave him the opportunity to study anatomy and surgery at the local Anatomico-Surgical Institute.
  • In 1821 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Berlin, and became Prosector at the university in 1823.
  • In 1829 he became "professor extraordinary" of anatomy, and attained the title of "full professor" in 1833. Recently discovered archival sources demonstrate that, in June 1816, Schlemm and a fellow student disinterred the body of a deceased woman late at night in a Braunschweig churchyard to bring the body to this Institute and study the effects of rickets on the woman's bones.
  • They were caught and sentenced to 4 weeks of prison.
  • Subsequently, Schlemm left Braunschweig and found work as a low-rank army surgeon in Berlin.
  • Professor Rudolphi, the director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy, took note of Schlemm's manual dexterity in anatomical dissection and supported his impressive career.
  • Schlemm eventually became full professor of anatomy in 1833 and spent his remaining 25 years in Berlin with a focus on teaching students and training surgeons.
  • As historical background information is largely lacking in this regard, it is impossible to decide whether Schlemm's episode of grave robbing was a solitary instance or a more common method of acquiring bodies for anatomical instruction in early 19th-century Germany. Schlemm was known for his pathological studies on cadavers.
  • He was the first to discover the corneal nerves of the eye, which he describes in his 1830 treatise named Arteriarum capitis superficialum icon nova.
  • He is known today for the eponymous Schlemm's canal, which is a channel in the eye that collects aqueous humor from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the bloodstream.

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