Max Schultze

Max Johann Sigismund Schultze
Max Johann Sigismund Schultze
Born	March 25, 1825 Freiburg
Died	January 16, 1874
Nationality	German
Fields	anatomist
Alma mater	Halle

Max Johann Sigismund Schultze (March 25, 1825 - January 16, 1874) was a German microscopic anatomist noted for his work on cell theory.

Biography

Schultze was born at Freiburg in Breisgau (Baden). He studied medicine at Greifswald and Berlin, and was appointed extraordinary professor at Halle in 1854 and five years later ordinary professor of anatomy and histology and director of the Anatomical Institute at Bonn. He died at Bonn on the 16th of January 1874. He was the older brother of obstetrician Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827-1919).

He founded, in 1865, and edited the important Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie, to which he contributed many papers, and he advanced the subject generally, by refining on its technical methods. His works included:

• Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Turbellarien (1851)
• Uber den Organismus der Polythalamien (1854)
• Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Landplanarien (1857)
• Zur Kenntnis der elektrischen Organe der Fische (1858)
• Ein heizbarer Objecttisch und seine Verwendung bei Untersuchungen des Blutes^[1] (1865, in which the first known description of the platelet)
• Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina (1866)

His name is especially known for his work on the cell theory. Uniting Félix Dujardin's conception of animal sarcode with Hugo von Mohl's of vegetable protoplasma, he pointed out their identity, and included them under the common name of protoplasm, defining the cell as a nucleated mass of protoplasm with or without a cell wall (Das Protoplasma der Rhizopoden und der Pflanzenzellen; ein Beiträg zur Theorie der Zelle, 1863).

See also

• Schultze reagent

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Schultze, Max Johann Sigismund". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

1. ^ Schultze M. Ein heizbarer Objecttisch und seine Verwendung bei Untersuchungen des Blutes. Arch Mikrosc Anat 1865;1:1-42.

External links

•  "Schultze, Max Sigismund". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

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Name	Schultze, Max
Alternative names
Short description	German microscopic anatomist
Date of birth	March 25, 1825
Place of birth	Freiburg
Date of death	January 16, 1874
Place of death