biography
| name: |
Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob
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pronunciation:
[henluh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1809–85)
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| biography:
| Anatomist and pathologist, born in Fürth, SC Germany. He studied at Bonn and Berlin, and held professorships at Zürich (1840–4), Heidelberg (1844–52), and Göttingen (1852–85). He was a major influence in the development of histology, his Allgemeine Anatomie (1841, Comprehensive Anatomy) being the first systematic treatise of the subject. His Handbuch der rationellen Pathologie (1846–53, Handbook of Rational Pathology) marks the beginning of modern pathology. As early as 1840 he was claiming that contagious diseases were caused by parasitic organisms, a theory later proved by one of his students from Göttingen, Robert Koch. |
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