Hermann Munk

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Hermann Munk (1839-1912) was a Jewish German physiologist. He was born at Posen, studied at Berlin and Göttingen, and in 1862 became docent in the former university. Seven years afterward he was promoted to assistant professor, and in 1876 to professor of physiology at the veterinary college at Berlin. Besides studies on the productive methods of threadworms Munk wrote on the physiology of the nerves and especially on the brain:

• Untersuchungen über das Wesen der Nervenerregung (1868)
• Ueber die Funktionen der Grosshirnrinde (1881; second edition, 1890)
• Ueber die Ausdehnung der Sinnessphären in der Grosshirnrinde (1901-02)
• Ueber die Functionen des Kleinhirns (1906-08)
• Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Schsphäre der Grosshirnrinde (1910)

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