He Sold Wax Casts of His Genitals - And Rewrote Sex Laws
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He Sold Wax Casts of His Genitals - And Rewrote Sex Laws
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He walked into a physician’s office with a wooden case of hand-colored wax molds of his own genitalia and sold them to doctors - a strategy that turned his body into legal evidence. Those wax casts and a portfolio of contradictory medical reports traveled across German territories and shaped whether he could own property, sign contracts, or choose a profession. How did one man’s self-commissioned specimens force medicine and law to decide what sex meant?
In this episode, we tell the story of Gottlieb Göttlich Dürrge, what he carried in that case, and the chain of medical opinions that made private anatomy a public legal instrument. We trace his examinations, the wax molds he sold, and the consequences those documents had under Prussian law: could the body itself be used to claim civil rights?
Person: Gottlieb Göttlich Dürrge
Date of death: 1835
Birth period: 1770s
Law referenced: Allgemeines Landrecht of 1794
First recorded mold: circa 1810
- Dürrge carried medical reports with conclusions drawn in eleven cities by different physicians.
- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland at the Charité diagnosed an oversized clitoris and recorded "female."
- The 1835 autopsy reported a penis, a prostate, a partially atrophied testis, fallopian tubes, a uterus, and a vagina.
- Under the Allgemeines Landrecht of 1794, a medical diagnosis of sex determined legal rights like property ownership and contract ability.
- Dürrge began selling a series of hand-colored wax casts of his genitalia, with the first mold recorded around 1810.
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