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14-524: Volkmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877), German physiologist Elisabeth Volkmann (1936–2006), German actress John Volkmann (1905–1980), American scientist Paul Oskar Eduard Volkmann (1856–1938), German physicist and philosopher Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889), German surgeon Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), German composer See also [ edit ] Volkmann's contracture ,

28-400: A disease causing stiffness of the hand Volkmann's fracture , a type of bone fracture of the fibula Volkmann's canals , microscopic structures in animal bone Volkman [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Volkmann . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

42-553: A number of speeches against the materialist assumption of identity between the body and mind. Richard von Volkmann , his son, became a distinguished surgeon. Robert Franz Robert Franz Julius Knauth (28 June 1815 – 24 October 1892) was a German composer, mainly of lieder . Franz was born in Halle , Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth. In 1847, Christoph Knauth adopted his middle name Franz as his new surname, and his son followed suit. He suffered in early life from

56-645: The Singakademie and the Symphony . He also served as royal music-director and music master at the university. The first book of songs was warmly praised by Liszt and Schumann , and the latter wrote a lengthy review of it in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and later published it separately as well. Deafness began to make itself apparent as early as 1841. Franz also had a nervous disorder that in 1868 compelled him to resign his offices. His future

70-542: The University of Leipzig . It was there that he became professor extraordinary of zootomy in 1834. In 1837 he went to Dorpat as professor of physiology, pathology and semiotics . However, his residence in Dorpat was short: he left for Halle as early as 1843. After moving to Halle, Volkmann helped Gustav Theodor Fechner , his brother-in-law (married to Volkmann's sister Clara Fechner ), with many experiments that formed

84-703: The customary cloth or leather. On examination, the paper turned out to be Bach manuscripts. After questioning the gardener, Franz found a trunk of them, including a number of violin sonatas . Although this account was printed in The New York Times , Franz declared it was "entirely untrue". In addition to songs, he set the 117th Psalm for double choir and wrote and a four-part Kyrie ; he also edited Emanuele d'Astorga 's Stabat Mater and Francesco Durante 's Magnificat . On his seventieth birthday he published his only pianoforte piece. He also transcribed Schubert 's String Quartet in D minor ("Death and

98-437: The former's St Matthew Passion , Magnificat and ten cantatas, and the latter's Messiah and L'Allegro , although some of these editions have long been controversial among musicians. In 1843 he published his first book of songs, which was followed by some fifty more books, containing in all about 250 songs. In his native Halle he filled various public offices, including those of city organist as well as conductor of

112-507: The foundation of the epochal Elemente der Psychophysik . (his daughter Anna Anschütz was later experimental subject for Fechner). In 1854 Volkmann additionally took on the teaching of anatomy, until 1872, when physiology was branched off and given to Julius Bernstein . Volkmann's house in Halle was a center of the city's social life. Among his friends were the painters Wilhelm von Kügelgen , Friedrich Preller and Ludwig Richter , as well as

126-458: The hostility of his parents to a musical career. He was twenty years old when his father's animosity was conquered and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Friedrich Schneider . The two years of study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel , his knowledge of which is shown in his editions of

140-871: The musicians Robert Franz , and Clara and Robert Schumann . In 1872, after his fiftieth doctoral jubilee he retired completely from his university activities. He died in Halle . Today, Volkmann is most remembered for his additions to the physiology of the nervous system and physiological optics. In 1842 he demonstrated that sympathetic nerves were largely made up of medullated fibres arising from sympathetic and spinal ganglia . However, he also delineated and identified numerous features of gross anatomy, including Volkmann's canals . Probably equally important, however, are his contributions to psychophysics and perception research. Fechner developed his classical psychophysical Method of average error (already in use in astronomy) in co-operation with Volkmann. In his 1864 treatise, Volkmann studied Weber's law and reported that

154-404: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Volkmann&oldid=1160667719 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann

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168-399: The threshold for distance discrimination increases with the increase of the reference distance. This was one of the first demonstrations of Weber's law in the visual domain. Volkmann's extensive experimental data in that book was the main basis on which Ewald Hering developed his theory of hyperacuity in 1899. Philosophically, Volkmann was an evangelical who opposed materialism and gave

182-514: Was born in Leipzig , and enrolled in medicine there in 1821. Together with Gustav Theodor Fechner , who got his degree in medicine in 1822, and Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), they formed a small intellectual group which dissolved only in 1837 when Volkmann received his professorship in Dorpat (now Tartu ). In 1826 he obtained his doctorate and in 1828 he was habilitated as Privatdozent at

196-478: Was then provided for by Franz Liszt , Joseph Joachim and others, who gave him the receipts of a concert tour amounting to some 100,000 marks. In 1878 or 1879, he made an extensive search for Bach manuscripts in various towns, villages and country houses in Germany. Supposedly, he discovered a park surrounding Schloss Witzthun where young trees were being protected from their supporting poles by paper instead of

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