English Names
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Original Names
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
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Date, Country, and City of Birth
July 19, 1809, Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
Date, Country, and City of Death
May 13, 1885, Göttingen, Germany
History of Life
Henle was born as the oldest child of a Jewish salesman in Fürth, Bavaria (Robinson 1921). His grandfather was Elkan Henle, who was a well-known Jewish salesman of his time and fought for the emancipation of the Bavarian Jews (Eckstein 1905). Henle’s family moved with him to the Rhineland, and Henle grew up in Mainz and Koblenz, where he and his family converted to the Protestant religion in 1821 (Merkel 1891). Henle started his medical studies in 1827 in Bonn, finishing them with the dissertation “De membrana pupillari” about the membranes of the eye and the vasculature of the vitreous body and the lens in 1832 in Heidelberg, where he had studied under Johannes Müller in 1830–1831 (Henle 1832; Dross 2009). He became assistant and...
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Ärztelexikon: von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert/hrsg. von Wolfgang U. Eckart und Christoph Gradmann. - Orig. - Ausg. - München: Beck (1995).
Chisholm, H. (ed.). (1911). Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob. In Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. 13; 11th ed.). United Kingdom: Cambridge.
Dross, F., & Salimi K. (Hrsg.). (2009). Henle. Bürgerliches Leben und “rationelle Medicin”. Schriftenreihe des Stadtarchivs und Stadtmuseums Fürth. Bd. 2. Fürth: Sabine Brenner-Wilczek und Gert-Ronald Langer.
Eckstein, A. (1905). Der Kampf der Juden um ihre Emanzipation in Bayern. Fürth i. B: G. Rosenberg.
Handbuch der rationellen Pathologie (2010). Buch. ca. 508 S. Kartoniert/Broschiert Nabu Press, (1846–1853). ISBN 978-1-147-19838-6.
Henle, J. (1832). De membrana pupillaria. Bonn: Reich.
Merkel, F. (1891). Jacob Henle: Ein deutsches Gelehrtenleben, nach Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn.
Robinson, V. (1921). The life of Jacob Henle. New York: Medical Life Co.
Symbolae ad anatomiam villorum intestinalium. Berlin (1837). http://www.amazon.de/Symbolae-Anatomiam-Intestinalium-Epithelii-Lacteorum/dp/1276744188
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Lasitschka, F. (2017). Henle, Jacob (1809–1885). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_544
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