Wilhelm His

Bio

* 1831, Basel, Switzerland

† 1904, Leipzig, Germany

Career

1849 studies of medicine at the universities of Basel, Bern and Berlin (under Johannes Müller and Robert Remak); 1852-53 at the University of Würzburg for his clinical training; visits to Prague and Vienna, where he met Ernst von Brücke and Karl Rokitansky; 1854 physicians' examination in Basel; 1855 dissertation which dealt with the normal and pathological histology of the cornea; 1855-56 stay at Paris where he met Claude Bernard, Berthelot and Brown-Séquard; return to Basel; 1856-57 qualification as a lecturer in anatomy and physiology; 1857 visitor in Graefe's ophthalmological clinic in Berlin where he worked on the histology of the eye; 1857 professor of anatomy and physiology at Basel in succession to Georg Meissner; 1863 member of the city parliament of Basel, responsible for reorganizing the city following typhus and cholera epidemics; 1865-66 adviser on sewerage, cemeteries and school hygiene; 1872 chair of anatomy at the University of Leipzig in succession to Ernst Heinrich Weber; 1875 new anatomy laboratory opened; 1869-70 vice-chancellor of the University of Basel and from 1882-83 of the University of Leizig; co-founder and several times perpetual secretary of the mathematics and physics section of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences; 1891 president of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians.

Degrees

M.D., University of Basel, 1855

VL Library

Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers, Basel 1865; Über die Entwicklung des Hühnchens im Ei, Basel 1870; Über die Bildung des Lachsembryos, 1874; Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Entstehung : Briefe an einen befreundeten Naturforscher, Leipzig 1874; Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen, 3 Bde., Leipzig 1880-1885; Zur Geschichte des menschlichen Rückenmarks und der Nervenzelle, in: Abh. Königl. sächs. Ges, Wiss. Leipzig, Math.-phys. Cl., 13(1886): 147-209, 477-513; Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Marke, in: ebda 15(1889): 313-372; Über mechanische Grundvorgänge tierischer Formbildung, in: A. Anat. (Phys.) (1894); Die anatomische Nomenklatur, Leipzig 1895.

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