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Friedrich Leopold Goltz (14 August 1834 – 5 May 1902) was a German physiologist and nephew of the writer Bogumil Goltz . Biography. Born in Posen (Poznań), Grand Duchy of Posen, he studied medicine at the University of Königsberg, and following two years of surgical training, served as a prosector of anatomy in Königsberg.
German physiologist Friedrich Goltz formulated the “hydrostatic concept” in 1870 to explain the working of the semicircular canals. He postulated that the canals are stimulated by the weight of the fluid they contain, the pressure it exerts varying with the head position.
Oct 10, 2000 · At the Congress of 1881, David Ferrier, a leading proponent of cerebral localization, and Friedrich Leopold Goltz, an equally prominent anti-localizationist, had the opportunity to present their experimental research before 3,000 of the world’s leading medical figures.
Dec 1, 2020 · This paper focuses on Friedrich Goltz, the most famous German anti-localizer who rejected cerebral localization until his death in 1902. Throughout the final quarter of the 19th century, Goltz engaged in a spirited debate with Hitzig and Hermann Munk, who were the most ardent German proponents of localization theories ( Pauly, 1987 ).
In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to escape the water when it reached 25 °C.
Goltz, Friedrich Leopold (b. Posen, Germany [now Poznan, Poland], 14 August 1834; d. Strasbourg, France, 4 May 1902) physiology, encephalology. Goltz’s father, Heinrich Goltz, a police inspector in Posen and Danzig, died when Friedrich was twelve.
Friedrich Goltz. In the late 19th century, physiologists such as David Ferrier, Eduard Hitzig, and Hermann Munk argued that cerebral brain functions are localized in discrete structures. By the early 20th century, this became the dominant position.
