Adolf Pansch (2 March 1841, in

Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2020, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic origin. Its meaning i ...

– 14 August 1887) was a German

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...

and naturalist. Since 1860 he studied medicine and natural sciences in

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and

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, and from 1862 to 1864 he studied medicine in Berlin and

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. After graduation, he served as a

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in the anatomical museum at the

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, where in 1866 he began work as a lecturer to the faculty of medicine.Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1255-1256
translated biography In 1869/70 he took part in the Second German North Polar Expedition, about which he published a few works involving the natural history of the

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. In 1874 he became an associate professor at the University of Kiel. He died at the age of 46 while on a sailboat excursion in

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. His name is associated with "Pansch's flssure", being described as a cerebral fissure running from the lower extremity of the

central fissure In neuroanatomy, the central sulcus (also central fissure, fissure of Rolando, or Rolandic fissure, after Luigi Rolando) is a sulcus, or groove, in the cerebral cortex in the brains of vertebrates. It is sometimes confused with the longitu ...

nearly to the end of the

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Selected works

* "De pyorrhoea alveolari seu gingivitide expulsiva", 1864 (thesis/dissertation, Halle-Wittenberg). * "De sulcis et gyris in cerebris simiarum et hominum", 1866. * ''Einige Bemerkungen über das Klima Pflanzen- und Thierleben auf Ostgrönland'', 1871 – Comments on the climate, plant and animal life of eastern

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. * ''Winter- und Sommerleben auf der deutschen Nordpolarfahrt'', 1871 – Winter and summer life of the German

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expedition. * ''Klima und Pflanzenleben auf Ostgrönland'', 1874 – Climate and plant life of eastern Greenland. * ''Beiträge zur Morphologie des Grosshirns der Säugethiere'', 1879 – Contributions to the morphology of the

cerebrum The cerebrum, telencephalon or endbrain is the largest part of the brain containing the cerebral cortex (of the two cerebral hemispheres), as well as several subcortical structures, including the hippocampus, basal ganglia, and olfactory bulb. ...

of warm-blooded animals. * ''Grundriss der Anatomie des Menschen'', 1881 – Outline on the anatomy of humans. * ''Anatomische Vorlesungen für Aerzte und ältere Studirende'', 1884 – Anatomical lectures for doctors and older students.WorldCat Search
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pansch, Adolf 1841 births 1887 deaths People from Eutin Academic staff of the University of Kiel University of Halle alumni German anatomists German polar explorers German naturalists