Carl Ernst Bock

Carl Ernst Bock (1809 to 1874) was a German physician and anatomist from Leipzig, the son of the anatomist Carl August Bock. He earned his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1831, served as a hospital physician to both the Polish and Russian armies during the November Uprising, and returned to Leipzig in 1832 as a private lecturer. In 1837 he was put in charge of autopsies at the Leipzig hospital, in 1839 he became extraordinary professor of pathological anatomy, and in 1850 he became head of the university's clinical department. He wrote handbooks and atlases of human and pathological anatomy, including a Handbook of Human Anatomy in 1838 and an Atlas of Pathological Anatomy in 1855. In later years he wrote essays and books on public health in clear and forceful language for a popular readership, often in Ernst Keil's family magazine Die Gartenlaube.