Jacobson, Ludwig Levin

Ludwig Levin Jacobson was born on January 10, 1783 in the city of Copenhagen in a Jewish family. From 1799 to 1804 he studied medicine, first in Stockholm , and then in Copenhagen, from 1806 he was a surgeon at the Surgical Academy, from 1807 he gave lectures in chemistry there.

During the siege of Copenhagen, he headed the military infirmary, in 1811 he was sent to Germany and France, where until 1813 he was engaged in comparative anatomy and medicine. Returning to his homeland, Jacobson was sent to the French army in order to study the military medical unit. Near Leipzig, the French infirmary, in which Jacobson was lying dying, was taken by the Cossacks. Before the conclusion of peace in 1814, Jacobson took an active part in the management of the hospitals of the Anglo-Hanoverian army. Returning to Copenhagen, Jacobson was appointed professor and also became an honorary doctorate at Christian Albrecht University .

In 1822 he entered the regimental surgeon in the guard of the Danish army, in 1842 he was appointed life doctor of the Swedish king. Jacobson's scientific activity was very extensive: he was an excellent surgeon, invented a number of surgical instruments and established treatment through the operation of various previously incurable diseases. In the field of physiology, he mainly studied blood circulation and renal excretion. The most fruitful activity, however, can be called his work in the field of comparative anatomy, mainly vertebrates, and in particular the structure of the organs of hearing and smell, as evidenced by a number of organs discovered by Jacobson and named after him ( Jacobson organ ).

In 1829, Ludwig Levin Jacobson became a holder of the Danebrog Order , in 1842 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

• "Description anatomique d'un organe observé dans les mammifères" ("Nouv. Bull. Sc. Soc. Phil.", 1812);
• “Extrait d'un Mémoire sur un organe particulier de sens dans les Raies et les Squales” (ibid., 1813);
• “Sur une glande conglomerée appartenante à la cavité nasale” (ibid., 1813);
• Ueber die Thymus der Winterschläfer (Mecke's Arch. F. Phys., 1817);
• Sur l'existence des Reins dans les animaux Mollusques (Journ. De Phys., 1820);
• "Ueber ein in sehr vielen Thieren vorkommendes Venensystem" ("Fror. Not.", 1821);
• "Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur un système veineux particulier aux reptiles" ("Isis", 1823);
• "Bidrag till Bloeddyrenes Anatomie og Physiologie" ("Danske Selsk. Nat. Afh.", 1828);
• "Om Bloeddyrenes Nyrer og om Urinsyren. etc "(ibid.);
• “Recherches anatomiques sur les Cyclades” (“Féruss. Bull. Sc. Nat.”, 1830);
• "De Okenske Legemer eller Primordialnyrerne etc." ("Dansk. Selsk. Nat. Afh.", 1832);
• Sur les reins primordiaux (Institut, 1834);
• "Om Primordialcraniet" ("Dansk. Selsk. Forh.", 1842).

• Adelung N.N. Jacobson, Ludwig Levin // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.