Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand (6 November 1811 in

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– 6 July 1894 in Giessen) was a German forensic physician. He was the father of chemist

Julius Wilbrand Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (22 August 1839 – 22 June 1906)''Familienarchiv Familie Wilbrand'' O13, Nr. 139, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. was a German chemist. Born in Gießen to Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand and Albertine Kna ...

(1839–1906) and

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Hermann Wilbrand (1851–1935). He studied medicine at the

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, where his teachers included his father, anatomist

Johann Bernhard Wilbrand Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (8 March 1779 in Clarholz – 6 May 1846 in Giessen) was a German anatomist and naturalist. He was a proponent of ''Naturphilosophie''. In 1806 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Würzburg, then ...

(1779–1846) and his uncle,

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Ferdinand von Ritgen. After graduation (1833), he remained at Giessen as an assistant at the surgical hospital. In 1840 he became an associate professor, and three years later, attained a full professorship in forensic medicine and

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at the university.Leopoldina, Volume 30
edited by

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Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn (25 December 1808, Kiel – 14 May 1878, Dresden) was a German anatomist and zoologist. For eight years he was president of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From 1828 he studied medicine at the Universities o ...

, etc. He was among the first physicians to use

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for treatment of scrofula, publishing the treatise ''Beiträge zur Würdigung der arzneilichen Wirkung des Kreosot's'' (1834) as a result. In 1840 he coined the term " horseshoe-shaped commissure of Wernekinck" as a name for the

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of the

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Selected works

* ''Anatomie und Physiologie der Centralgebilde des Nervensystems'', 1840 – Anatomy and physiology of the central structure of the nervous system. * ''Leitfaden bei gerichtlichen Leichenuntersuchungen'', 1841 – Guidelines for judicial autopsies. * ''Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychologie für Aerzte und Juristen'', 1858 – Textbook of

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for doctors and lawyers.Wilbrand, Franz Joseph Julius
Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1851.

References

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