Gustav Jacob Born (1851–1900) was a German

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and author. He was the father of

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. Born was born to a Jewish family in Kempen (Kępno),

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. He received his education first at the gymnasium of

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, where his father practised as a physician and held the position of ''Kreisphysicus'' (district physician), and afterward at the universities of Breslau,

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, and

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, graduating as physician from Breslau in 1876. In the same year he was appointed assistant prosector and

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at the

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, and in 1877 prosector. In 1886, he was elected assistant professor, and in 1898 professor of histology and comparative anatomy, at the same university, receiving the Prussian

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of the fourth class in the latter year. Born was married twice. His wife Gretchen Kauffmann gave birth to

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(b. 11 December 1882) and a daughter Käthe (b. 5 March 1884), but she died on 29 August 1886. Gustav married a second time (m. 13 September 1891); his second wife, Bertha Lipstein, gave birth to another son, Wolfgang (b. 21 October 1892). Several technical inventions, as well as new methods in the field of microscopy and

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, made Born's name prominent in his lifetime. Among these was a method for reproducing and plastically enlarging small anatomical and embryological objects, which was described in ''Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Mikroscopie'', vol. v. Gustav Jacob Born was a great-grandfather of Australian singer and actress

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Published works

*''Ueber das Extremitätenskelett der Amphibien und Reptilien''; *''Ueber die Nasenhöhle und den Thränennasengang bei Allen Wirbelthïeren von den Amphibien Aufwärts'' (this series of articles is published in Carl Gegenbauer's ''Morphologisches Jahrbuch'', vols. i.-vii.); *''Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Säugethierherzens'', in ''Archiv für Mikroscopische Anatomie'', vol. xxxii.; *''Ueber die Derivate der Embryologischen Schlundbögen und Schlundspalten bei Säugethieren'', ib. 1883; *''Beiträge zur Bastardirung Zwischen den Einheimischen Ameisenarten'', in Pflüger's "Archiv für die Gesammte Physiologie," 1883; *"Biologische Untersuchungen," part 1: "Ueber den Einfluss der Schwere auf das Froschei," in "Archiv für Mikroscopische Anatomie," 1885; *"Biologische Untersuchungen," part 2; "Weitere Beiträge zur Bastardirung Zwischen den Einheimischen Ameisen," ib. 1886; *"Ueber Druckversuche an Froscheiern," in "Anatomischer Anzeiger", 1893, viii,. Nos. 18, 19. *"Ueber Verwachsungs-Versuche mit Amphibienlarven," Leipzig, 1897

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