Justus Christian Loder

Justus Christian Loder

Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder (1753-1832)
Born 12 March 1753
Riga, Riga Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died 16 April 1832(1832-04-16) (aged 79)
Moscow, Imperial Russia
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Fields Anatomist, surgeon, physiologist, and obstetrician
Institutions University of Jena
University of Halle
Alma mater University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor Heinrich August Wrisberg
August Gottlieb Richter
Doctoral students Christian Heinrich Bünger
Other notable students Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder (12 March 1753 – 16 April 1832) was a German anatomist and surgeon who was a native of Riga.

In 1777 Loder earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, and the following year was appointed professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Jena, where he would practice medicine for the next 25 years. At Jena he was responsible for the establishment of an anatomical theatre and an Accouchierhaus (maternity house). In 1780-81, at the expense of the Duke of Weimar, he took a scientific journey to France, England and Holland, a trip in which he made the acquaintance of several well-known physicians and scientists Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Jean-Louis Baudelocque, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr and John Hunter, to name a few.[1]

In 1803 he transferred to the University of Halle, where he established a clinic of obstetrics. After the closing of the University of Halle by Napoleon in 1806, he became personal physician to the Prussian royal family at Königsberg. Later he relocated to Russia, where in 1810 he became personal physician to Czar Alexander I. Between 1814 and 1817 he was in charge of the military hospital in Moscow. He died in Moscow on 16 April 1832.

From 1794 to 1803 he published Tabulae anatomicae, which was a masterpiece containing a complete collection of anatomical illustrations of the human body. The work was one of the largest and most comprehensive anatomical atlases in its time. During his career, Loder maintained on-going friendships with Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland [2] and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; both men having taken anatomy classes from Loder.

Written works

References

  1. ADB:Loder, Justus Christian von @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. Manchester.edu Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland (1762-1836); Draft of an article in The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.