Jacob Katzenstein (January 7, 1864 – September 3, 1921) was a German

otorhinolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

born in

Preußisch Oldendorf Preußisch Oldendorf () is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In 1905 the town name ''Oldendorf'' was changed officially by putting "Preußisch" in front of it, to make the distinction from other towns with ...

. He studied medicine in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

and

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

, earning his doctorate in 1888. Afterwards he worked as assistant to

Benno Baginsky (1848–1919) in Berlin. From 1909 he was a lecturer at the

University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

. Katzenstein specialized in research of

voice disorders Voice disordersTitze, I.R. (1994). Principles of Voice Production, Prentice Hall, . are medical conditions involving abnormal pitch, loudness or quality of the sound produced by the larynx and thereby affecting speech production. These include: * ...

and is known for

physiological Physiology (; ) is the science, scientific study of function (biology), functions and mechanism (biology), mechanisms in a life, living system. As a branches of science, subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ syst ...

investigations of the

larynx The larynx (), commonly called the voice box, is an organ (anatomy), organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. The opening of larynx into pharynx known as the laryngeal ...

. In 1913 he became editor of the ''Archiv für experimentelle und klinische Phonetik'' (Archive for experimental and clinical

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

Selected publications

* ''Über die Medianstellung des Stimmbandes bei Recurrenslähmung'' (Virchow's Archiv 1892). * ''Über die Innervation des m. crico-thyreoideus'' - On innervation of the median

cricothyroids The arytenoid cartilages () are a pair of small three-sided pyramids which form part of the larynx. They are the site of attachment of the vocal cords. Each is pyramidal or ladle-shaped and has three surfaces, a base, and an apex. The arytenoid ...

. * ''Weitere Mitteilungen über die Innervation des m. crico-thyreoideus'' (1894) - New information on innervation of the median cricothyroids. * ''Die Orthoskopie des Larynx'' (Archive for Laryngology IV) -

Orthoscopy Orthoscopy used in optics and vision for the condition of normal, distortion-free view, from ''"ortho",'' straight, right, correct, and ''"scope"'', seeing. Ernst Abbe, Abbe in 1880 designed an ''orthoscopic'' eyepiece for stereoscopic microscopes ...

of the larynx. * ''Die Autoskopie des Nasenrachenraums''. * ''Zur Frage der Posticuslähmung'', (Part 1 with Arthur Kuttner, Archive for Laryngology VIII; Part 2 Ib. IX). * ''Experimentelle Beiträge zur Physiologie des Kehlkopfs'', (with Arthur Kuttner, Archive for Anatomy and Physiology 1899) - Experimental contributions to the physiology of the larynx.

References

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Essential Prerequisites for the Development of Phoniatrics 1864 births 1921 deaths People from Minden-Lübbecke German otolaryngologists Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Freiburg {{Germany-med-bio-stub