Bernhard Rawitz
{{Short description|German military physician, anatomist and zoologist}}
Bernhard Rawitz (23 August 1857, Ostrowo - 28 December 1932) was a German military physician, anatomist and zoologist.
He studied medicine at Kaiser Wilhlem Akademie in Berlin, afterwards serving as a military doctor in Metz (1880–83). He later worked at the zoological stations in Naples (1887–88, 1890) and Rovigno (1892-1898). In the late 19th century he journeyed to northern Norway (Tromsø, Sørvær, Trollfjord, Bear Island), where he performed studies of cetaceans.[http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Rawitz,+Bernhard Pagel: Biographical Dictionary] outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, Sp 1349th
In 1889, he qualified as a lecturer of comparative anatomy, and in 1912, was appointed an associate professor to the museum of pathology at the University of Berlin.[https://books.google.com/books?id=JkoK_108xJkC&dq=%22Rawitz,+Bernhard%22+1857&pg=PT207 Google Books] Plett - Schmidseder by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company
Selected writings
- Die Ranvier'schen Einschnüringen Lautermann'schen Einkerbungen, 1879 (dissertation).
- Die Fußdrüse der Opistobranchier, 1887 - The foot glands of Opisthobranchia.
- Leitfaden für histologische Untersuchungen, 1889 - Guidelines for histological studies.
- Grundriß der Histologie, 1894 - Outline of histology.
- Das Gehörorgan der japanischen Tanzmäuse, 1899 - The hearing organ of the Japanese dancing mouse.
- Ich mag Haarbürsten, 1899 - The sense of smell of the Nape Rigger.{{Citation needed|reason=Obviously he liked mustache brushes, but hair brushes?|date=February 2025}}
- Ueber den Bau der Cetaceenhaut, 1899 - On the construction of whaleskin
- Lehrbuch der mikroskopischen Technik, 1907 - Textbook of microscopic technique.
- Zeit und Gott : eine kritisch-erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchung auf der Grundlage der physikalischen Relativitätstheorie, (1922, second edition) - Time and God: a critical and epistemological investigation on the basis of the physical theory of relativity.[http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/16756/ Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen › Sammlungsobjekte][http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bernhard+Rawitz%22 Google Books] (publications)
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