Otto Kohlrausch

Otto Kohlrausch

Otto Ludwig Bernhard Kohlrausch (March 20, 1811 - November 14, 1854) was a German physician and surgeon who was a native of Barmen.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn and medicine at Georg-August University of Göttingen. In 1835 he began practicing medicine in Hannover, and in 1841 established a health spa at Bad Rehburg on behalf of the government.

Otto Kohlrausch was a member of a distinguished family of scientists and scholars, and was an uncle to famed physicist Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840-1910). The eponymous "Kohlrausch's valves" are named after him, which are also known as the transverse rectal folds. Another anatomical structure associated with his name is "Kohlrausch's muscle", which is used to refer to any of the longitudinal muscles of the rectal wall.