Robert Heinrich Johannes Sobotta (31 January 1869 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 ...

– 20 April 1945 in

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) was a German

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal 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 scien ...

. He studied medicine in Berlin, where he subsequently worked as a second assistant at the institute of anatomy. From 1895 he served as prosector at the institute for

comparative anatomy Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny (the evolution of species). The science began in the classical era, continuing in t ...

embryology Embryology (from Ancient Greek, Greek ἔμβρυον, ''embryon'', "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, ''-logy, -logia'') is the branch of animal biology that studies the Prenatal development (biology), prenatal development of gametes (sex ...

and

histology Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissue (biology), tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at large ...

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the Franconia#Towns and cities, third-largest city in Franconia located in the north of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. It sp ...

. In 1903 he became an associate professor and in 1912 a full professor of topographical anatomy. In 1916 he relocated to the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

as director of the anatomical institute, afterwards performing similar duties at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

(from 1919).Uni Giessen.de
(biography in German) He is remembered today for the ''Sobotta atlas of human anatomy'', a masterpiece of macroscopic anatomy acclaimed for its high quality and detail. First issued in 1904 with the title ''Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen'' ("Atlas of descriptive human anatomy"), it has been published in more than 300 editions in 19 languages (15 editions in English). Sobotta was also the author of ''Atlas und Grundriß der Histologie und mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen'' (1902), later translated into English and published as ''Textbook and atlas of human histology and microscopic anatomy''.WorldCat Identities
(publications) In 1944 he was awarded the

Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft The Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Goethe Medal for Art and Science) is a German award. It was authorized by Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg to commemorate the centenary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's death on March 22, 1932. It ...

Notable publications

* 1901: ''Atlas und Grundriß der Histologie und mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen''. * 1904–1907: ''Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen'' in 3 volumes. * 1904–1907: ''Grundriß der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen''.

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{{Germany-med-bio-stub 1869 births 1945 deaths Physicians from Berlin German anatomists Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Academic staff of the University of Würzburg

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