Philipp Stöhr

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Philipp Stöhr (1872)

Philipp Stöhr (13 June 1849, Würzburg – 4 November 1911) was a German anatomist and histologist. His son, also named Philipp Stöhr (1891-1979), was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bonn.

He studied medicine in Würzburg, where in 1869 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.^[1] As a professor at the University of Würzburg, he developed a leading school of histology and embryology.^[2]

He was the author of a landmark textbook on histology and microscopic anatomy, titled Lehrbuch der Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen : mit Einschluß der mikroskopischen Technik (1887), being published over many editions. Stöhr's work was translated into English, and published as:

"Text-book of histology, including the microscopical technique", (1898).
"Stöhr's histology : arranged upon an embroyological basis", (1906).^[3]

References

↑ Statement based on an a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
↑ University of Wuerzburg Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie: Geschichte des Instituts
↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)

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Name	Stöhr, Philipp
Alternative names
Short description	German histologist
Date of birth	13 June 1849
Place of birth	Würzburg
Date of death	4 November 1911
Place of death

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