Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2277

JOHANNES SOBOTTA (1869-1945) Atlas and text-book of human anatomy. W. B. Saunders 1909 Vol. I: [2] 11-258 pp., plates (part col.), illus. (part col.); Vol. II: [2] 13-194 pp., plates (part col.), illus. (part col.); Vol. III: [2] 11-342 pp., plates (part col.), illus. (part col.). 23.5 cm.

Educated in his native city of Berlin, Sobotta received his medical degree in 1891. He assisted at the local anatomical institute until 1895 when he accepted an appointment at the Institute for Comparative Anatomy, Embryology and Microscopy at Würzburg where he rose to professor of topographical anatomy in 1912. In 1916 he became professor and director of the anatomical institute at Königsberg and three years later took a similar position at Bonn. He was particularly interested in embryology and performed fundamental research into the formation of the corpus luteum. Sobotta's Atlas der Anatomie des Menschen (Munich, 1904-1907) is one of the most successful and widely used anatomical atlases ever to be published. The eighteenth German edition was published in 1982 and the tenth English edition appeared a year later. Its many finely drawn and clearly labeled illustrations and photographs, often in color, have made it an indispensable reference and text for students, anatomists, artists, and practicing physicians throughout the world. It presently is published in English, French, Turkish, Arabic, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish editions. The first American edition was issued in 1906-1907 at Philadelphia and this is the first reprinting. It has been edited by James Playfair McMurrich (1859-1939), professor of anatomy at the University of Toronto, and translated by Dr. William Hersey Thomas (b. 1873), professor of urology at Temple University in Philadelphia.