Carl Ernst Bock (February 21, 1809 – February 19, 1874) was a German physician and
anatomist
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Born in
Leipzig
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to anatomist Carl August Bock, he studied at the
University of Leipzig
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, where he earned his doctorate in 1831. During the
November Uprising
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was an armed rebellion in Russian Partition, the heartland of Partitions of Poland, partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. ...
in
Poland
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, he served as a hospital physician for both the Polish and Russian armies. On returning to Leipzig in 1832 he became a private lecturer, and in 1837 was appointed to preside over
autopsies
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at Leipzig's hospital. In 1839 he was appointed extraordinary professor of pathological anatomy, and in 1850 became head of the university's clinical department.
In addition to his writings on anatomical and surgical matters, in his later years Bock wrote numerous essays and books on public health. These were written in clear and strident language and addressed to a popular audience, often as essays in
Ernst Keil
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's family magazine ''
Die Gartenlaube
(; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: Berghahn, 2010) p. 41 It was founded by publisher ...
''.
Selected works
* ''Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen, mit Berücksichtigung der Physiologie und chirurgischen Anatomie'' ("Handbook of Human Anatomy, with Consideration to Physiology and Surgical Anatomy", 1838)
* ''Anatomisches Taschenbuch'' ("Anatomical Manual", 1839)
* ''Handatlas der Anatomie des Menschen'' ("Portable Atlas of Human Anatomy", 1843)
* ''Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie und Diagnostik'' ("Textbook of Pathological Anatomy and Diagnosis", 1848)
* ''Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie'' ("Atlas of Pathological Anatomy", 1855)
* ''Buch vom gesunden und kranken Menschen'' ("Book of Healthy and Ill Humans", 1855)
* ''Volksgesundheitslehrer'' ("Public Health Teachers", 1865)
* ''Bau, Leben und Pflege des menschlichen Körpers'' ("Constitution, Life, and Care of the Human Body", 1868)
References
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Andreas W. Daum, ''Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914''. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, .
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German anatomists
Leipzig University alumni
Academic staff of Leipzig University
Physicians from Leipzig
1809 births
1874 deaths