Nationality German Residence Germany | Role Surgeon Name Justus Loder | |
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Institutions University of Jena
University of Halle Alma mater University of Gottingen Doctoral students Christian Heinrich Bunger Other notable students Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Died April 16, 1832, Moscow, Russia Fields Anatomy, Surgeon, Physiology, Obstetrics Doctoral advisor Heinrich August Wrisberg, August Gottlieb Richter Similar People August Gottlieb Richter, Everard Home, Gottfried Christoph Beireis | ||
Education University of Gottingen | ||
Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder (12 March 1753 – 16 April 1832) was a German anatomist and surgeon who was a native of Riga.
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Biography
In 1777 Loder earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, and the following year was appointed professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Jena, where he would practice medicine for the next 25 years. At Jena he was responsible for the establishment of an anatomical theatre and an Accouchierhaus (maternity house). In 1780-81, at the expense of the Duke of Weimar, he took a scientific journey to France, England and Holland, a trip in which he made the acquaintance of several well-known physicians and scientists — Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Jean-Louis Baudelocque, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr and John Hunter, to name a few.
In 1803 he transferred to the University of Halle, where he established a clinic of obstetrics. After the closing of the University of Halle by Napoleon in 1806, he became personal physician to the Prussian royal family at Königsberg. Later he relocated to Russia, where in 1810 he became personal physician to Czar Alexander I. Between 1814 and 1817 he was in charge of the military hospital in Moscow. He died in Moscow on 16 April 1832.
From 1794 to 1803 he published Tabulae anatomicae, which was a masterpiece containing a complete collection of anatomical illustrations of the human body. The work was one of the largest and most comprehensive anatomical atlases in its time. During his career, Loder maintained on-going friendships with Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; both men having taken anatomy classes from Loder.