Kühne, Wilhelm Friedrich

Willy Kühne (1837-1900)

Bio: * 1837, Hamburg, Germany; † 1900, Heidelberg, Germany
Career: 1854 studies of chemistry under Wöhler, of anatomy under Henle, and of neurohistology under R. Wagner at the University of Göttingen; 1856 Ph.D. with a thesis on induced diabetes in frogs; some time at the University of Jena, where he worked with Carl Gustav Lehmann; 1858 collaboration with Emil Du Bois-Reymond and with Felix Hoppe-Seylerin Berlin; 1860 some time in Vienna where he worked with Ernst Brücke and Carl Ludwig; 1861 assistant at the chemical department of Virchow's institute; 1862 honorary M.D. from the University of Jena; 1868 move from Berlin to take over the chair of physiology at Amsterdam; Gustav Schwalbe and Thomas Lauder-Brunton became his collaborators; 1871 chair of physiology at the Physiological Institute, University of Heidelberg in succession to Helmholtz; 1875 new building for the institute of physiology built on his inititative; 1899 retirement.
Degrees: Ph.D. (1856)
VL Library: Lehrbuch der physiologischen Chemie, Leipzig 1866; Über das Trypsin (Enzym des Pankreas), in: Verh. naturhist.-med. Verein Heidelberg 1(1877): 194-198; Erfahrungen und Bemerkungen über Enzyme und Fermente, in: Untersuch. Physiolog. Inst. Univ. Heidelberg (1878): 291-324; On the origin and the causation of vital movement, in: Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) B44(1888): 427-447.