Adolph Murray
{{Short description|Swedish anatomist}}
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| name = Adolf Murray
| image = Adolf Murray.jpg
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| caption = Lithography 1847
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1751|02|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1803|04|04|1751|02|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Uppsala, Sweden
| death_cause =
| nationality = Swedish
| other_names =
| known_for = Anatomy
| occupation = Physician
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Adolph (Adolf) Murray (13 February 1751 – 4 May 1803) was a Swedish anatomist.
Biography
Adolph Murray was born on 13 February 1751 in Stockholm.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
He was the youngest son of the Prussian-born preacher and theologian Andreas Murray (1695 - 1771).
His brothers were the professors Johann Philipp Murray (1726-1776) and Johann Andreas Murray (1740-1791),
and the Bishop Gustaf Murray (1747-1825).{{sfn|MURRAY, ANDREAS och hans söner 1843}}
In 1764 Adolph Murray became a student in Uppsala, and soon became devoted to anatomy.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
He was a pupil of Carl Linnaeus.{{sfn|Fries|2011|p=260}}
At the age of 19 his professor gave him permission to give public lectures on anatomy in Stockholm.
In 1772 he received his PhD from Uppsala.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
Adolph Murray then undertook a foreign field trip, returning in 1776.
While he was away, he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Uppsala University.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
Linnaeus had supported this appointment.{{sfn|Fries|2011|p=260}}
He was one of the university's most prominent teachers, and made valuable contributions to science.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
Adolph Murray died in Uppsala on 4 May 1803.{{sfn|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}}
He had been a firm royalist. His son, Carl Adolph Murray, was to become American consul in Gothenburg.{{sfn|American consul in Göteborg}}
Bibliography
Murray published many papers on medical subjects. His longer works include:
- {{cite book|last=Murray|first=Adolf|title=Adolphi Murray Descriptio Arteriarvm Corporis Humani: In Tabulas Redacta; in Usus Discentium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wI4HAAACAAJ|access-date=2013-01-10|year=1794|publisher=Beerius}}
- {{cite book|last1=Forster|first1=Johann Reinhold|last2=Murray|first2=Adolf|title=Testacéologie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56FRtwAACAAJ|access-date=2013-01-10|year=1799}}
References
Citations
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Sources
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- {{cite journal |ref={{harvid|American consul in Göteborg}}
|journal=The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUjjAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2013-01-10
|year=1967|publisher=Swedish Pioneer Historical Society.|page=6
|title=American consul in Göteborg}}
- {{cite book |last=Fries|first=Theodor Magnus|title=Linnaeus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWa-A--2LZEC&pg=PA260|access-date=2013-01-10
|date=2011-12-22|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-03723-5}}
- {{cite book |ref={{harvid|Murray, 3. Adolf - Nordisk familjebok 1913}} |url=https://runeberg.org/nfbr/0730.html|year=1913
|title=Nordisk familjebok
|chapter=Murray, 3. Adolf |access-date=2013-01-10}}
- {{cite book |ref={{harvid|MURRAY, ANDREAS och hans söner 1843}}
|chapter=MURRAY, ANDREAS och hans söner|title=Biographiskt Lexicon öfver namnkunnige Svenska Män
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_a4DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197|access-date=2013-01-11
|year=1843|page=197}}
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Category:18th-century Swedish physicians