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Auf dem Weg zur wissenschaftlichen Anatomie. Leichen für Heidelberg, Tübingen und Köln
Abstract Medical doctors in France and Italy have been doing anatomical dissections of the human body since the thirteenth century. In the fifteenth century medical faculties in the German Reich attempted to catch up with their Mediterranean colleagues. In 1482 physicians from the University of Tübingen were granted a privilege by the Apostolic Penitentiary to perform dissections of corpses. Those in Cologne obtained a licence from the emperor in 1497. In Heidelberg, the elector of the Palatinate’s personal physician had already done „extrauniversity research“ on his own initiative, and performed dissections, and therefore had to ask for absolution and dispensation.
