222 Professor Miiller on the Life and Writings of 



Star, was born on the 14th July 1771, at Stockholm, where 

 his father, who was a native of the territory of Magdeburg, 

 was co-rector of the German School. As to the circumstances 

 of his early life, he has himself left behind him a notice, which 

 Professor Link has published in the Journal of the Russian 

 Society of Medicine, 1833, No. 4, and to which that philoso- 

 pher has added what was omitted by Rudolphi himself. I have 

 made much use of both these sources of information. Rudol- 

 phi received his early education at the German school of Stock- 

 holm, and at the Stralsund gymnasium : from 1790 to 1794 he 

 studied at the University of Greifswald, where he dedicated 

 much time to botany. Of his teachers there, he always spoke 

 with the greatest respect. He obtained his degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy at the same seminary in 1793, after having (pro- 

 phetically for his future career) defended his dissertation " Oh- 

 servationes circa vermes intestinales?'' In the year 1794 lie 

 attended the lectures of Hufeland and Batsch aj; Jena, and du- 

 ring the spring of the following year he made a botanical tour 

 by Dresden, Karlsbad, Erlangen, Fulda, Gottingen, the Hartz, 

 to Greifswald, where, after defending the second part of the 

 same dissertation, he obtained his degree of Doctor of Medicine. 

 Since 1793 he had been private lecturer in the Philosophi- 

 cal Faculty of Greifswald, and in 1796 he became private lec- 

 turer in the Medical Faculty. In the winter of the same year 

 he went to Berlin, in order to have practice in dissecting; and 

 in the course of the following year he became adjunct in the 

 Medical Faculty and prosector. In autumn 1801 he again pro- 

 ceeded to Berlin, to instruct himself in veterinary surgery, on 

 which subject the professorship at the veterinary institution at 

 Greifswald was transferred to him. He was occupied there till 

 the year 1810, after being named ordinary professor of medi- 

 cine in 1808. To this period of his life belong some of his 

 most important writings. 



In the year 180^ Rudolphi published his anatomical-physio- 

 lojrical treatises. He wrote this work after the death of his 

 first wife, in a very agitated frame of mind. " When I was 

 writing that book, I was often obliged to spring up and give 

 free course to my tears, over the loss of her who had at so early 

 gi period preceded me f' so writes this noble-minded man at the 



