Gustav Theodor Fritsch (5 March 1838 – 12 June 1927) was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiologist from Cottbus.
Fritsch studied natural science and medicine in Berlin, Breslau and Heidelberg. In 1874 he became an associate professor of physiology at the University of Berlin, where he was later appointed head of the histological department at the physiological institute.
He is known for his work with neuropsychiatrist Eduard Hitzig (1839–1907) involving the localization of the motor areas of the brain. In 1870, the two scientists probed the cerebral cortex of a dog to discover that electrical stimulation of different areas of the cerebrum caused involuntary muscular contractions of specific parts of the dog's body.
Along with his medical studies, Fritsch was also known for his ethnographical research in southern Africa (1863–66), during which time he traveled from Cape Town through the Orange Free State, Basutoland, Natal and Bechuanaland.
Research trip to Isfahan to observe the Venus transit of 1874, Fritsch third from left
In 1868 he took part in an expedition to Aden to observe a solar eclipse (18 August), afterwards traveling to Egypt, where he accompanied Johannes Dümichen (1833-1894) on an archaeological and photographic expedition. In 1874, he journeyed to Isfahan to observe the transit of Venus. He also performed zoological research in Anatolia, and in 1881/82 studied electric fish in regions of the eastern Mediterranean.[1]
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Gustav Theodor Fritsch (5 March 1838 – 12 June 1927) was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiologist from Cottbus. Fritsch studied...
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the brain responsible for different aspects of language, as well as GustavFritsch (1837–1927), Eduard Hitzig (1839–1907), and David Ferrier (1843–1924)...
cortex in animals by researchers such as Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907), GustavFritsch (1838–1927), David Ferrier (1842–1928) and Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902)...
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letters of which the square is composed. In 1883, German historian GustavFritsch reformed the letters to discover an invocation to Satan: SATAN, ORO...
in the brain; slides from contemporaries such as Angelo Ruffini and GustavFritsch; and slides from colleagues at Oxford such as John Burdon-Sanderson...
electric current and the brain. In 1870, Hitzig, assisted by anatomist GustavFritsch (1837–1927), applied electricity via a thin probe to the exposed cerebral...
observations a generation earlier. Broca's hypothesis was supported by GustavFritsch and Eduard Hitzig who discovered in 1870 that electrical stimulation...
results of two German physiologists, Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907) and GustavFritsch (1837–1927). In 1870, they had published results on localized electrical...
to Venezuela] (in German). Leipzig: Veit. du Bois-Reymond, Emil H.; Fritsch, Gustav; Sachs, Carl (1881). Untersuchungen am Zitteraal: gymnotus electricus...
even when the implant was switched off. In 1870, Eduard Hitzig and GustavFritsch demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the brains of dogs could...
1920s. Augustus Andrew Fritsch was born in 1866 to Gustav Augustus Fritsch and Christina Fritsch (née Holzer). The Fritsch's were a pioneer family who...
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as Professor Georg Manfeldt Willy Fritsch as Wolf Helius Gustav von Wangenheim as Ingenieur Hans Windegger (as Gustav v. Wangenheim) Gerda Maurus as Stud...
with 322 painterly nude studies after nature (with contributions by GustavFritsch, Josef Kirchner among others), Stuttgart, Kunstverlag Klemm & Beckmann...
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