Karl Friedrich Burdach

Karl Friedrich Burdach (12 June 1776 – 16 July 1847) was a German physiologist. He was born in Leipzig and died in Königsberg.

Karl Friedrich Burdach.

Life

He was graduated in medicine at Leipzig in 1800; became professor of physiology in the University of Dorpat in 1811, and four years later took a similar position at the University of Königsberg.

He provided in 1822 the name, due to the arching shape of its longest fibres, of the arcuate fasciculus,[1][2] the term amygdala,[3] and in 1800 the name "Biology" in the modern sense of the term.

Burdach was an advocate of vitalism. He believed in a life force that "created the whole world and produced each living thing."[4]

Legacy

The column of Burdach or fasciculus cuneatus, the lateral portion of the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord is named for him.[5] He differentiated the caudate nucleus from the putamen and identified the globus pallidus and its inner and outer segments.

Works
  • Diatetik für Gesunde (1805)
  • Enzyklopädie der Heilwissenschaft (three volumes, 1810–12)
  • Vom Bau und Leben des Gehirns und Rückenmarks (three volumes, 1819–25)
  • Neues Recepttaschenbuch für angehende Ärzte . 2., unveränd. Ausg. (1820) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft (1826–40)

Notes
  1. Catani M, Mesulam M. (2008). The arcuate fasciculus and the disconnection theme in language and aphasia: history and current state. Cortex. 44(8):953-61. PMID 18614162
  2. Carl Friedrich Burdach (1822), Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns, volume II, division iii, chapter iv, § 197, page 153
  3. Pabba, Mohan (2013). "Evolutionary development of the amygdaloid complex". Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 7. doi:10.3389/fnana.2013.00027.
  4. Shamdasani, Sonu. (2003). Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 179-180. ISBN 0-521-83145-8
  5. The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1938.

References
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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