Preyer, Thierry William

William Thierry Preyer (1841-1897)

Bio: * 1841, Moss Side, UK; † 1897, Wiesbaden, Germany
Career: 1859 studies of science (especially physiology and chemistry) at Heidelberg; 1862 doctorate; move from natural sciences to medicine and studies in Paris with Claude Bernard and Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, later in Berlin, Vienna and Bonn; 1865 qualification as a lecturer in zoophysics and zoochemistry in the Faculty of Philosophy in Bonn; 1866 medical degree at Bonn; in 1867 qualification as a teacher of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Jena; 1869 professor of physiology at Jena in succession to Johann Nepomuk Czermak and appointment as director of the Physiology Institute; 1888 retirement and for the rest of his life private scholar in Wiesbaden.
Degrees: doctorate (1862)

1813 - 1878

1828 - 1873

Preyer, William T.. 1882. Die Seele des Kindes: Beobachtungen über die geistige Entwicklung des Menschen in den ersten Lebensjahren. Leipzig: Grieben. Book

Preyer, William T.. 1880. Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Berlin: Paetel. Book

Preyer, William T.. 1883. Elemente der allgemeinen Physiologie: Kurz und leichtfasslich. Leipzig: Grieben. Book

Preyer, William T.. Ferdinand Zirkel. 1862 . Reise nach Island im Sommer 1860: Mit wissenschaftlichen Anhängen. Leipzig: Brockhaus. Book

Preyer, William T.. 1866 . De haemoglobino observationes et experimenta: Dissertatio inauguralis. Bonn: Cohen. Book