Gustaf Retzius

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Gustaf Retzius, 1907

Magnus Gustaf Retzius (born October 17, 1842 in Stockholm ; † July 21, 1919 there ) was a Swedish histologist .

Life

He came from a famous Swedish family of doctors - his father was the anatomist Anders Retzius , his grandfather the natural scientist and chemist Anders Jahan Retzius - and, following family tradition, he also studied medicine in Uppsala , Stockholm and Lund .

Retzius received his doctorate in 1871 . In 1877 he became an associate professor for histology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Since, in addition to his scientific interests, he also dealt with social and humanitarian issues and he was married to the feminist Anna Hierta , the daughter of the publisher's founder Lars Johan Hierta , he was responsible for publishing the major Stockholm daily Aftonbladet in addition to his university duties from 1884 to 1887 .

In 1889 he became a full professor of anatomy at the Karolinska Institute. He gave up this professorship in 1890 in order to devote himself entirely to his scientific research, which he was able to do without any problems thanks to the fortune of his wife.

His scientific achievements were mainly in the areas of the histology of the nervous system and the ear labyrinth. In addition, he conducted research in the field of comparative anatomy and anthropology. In total, he published over 500 scientific papers.

Retzius had been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1870 . In 1882 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1886 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1892 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina. In 1895 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1901 he was accepted into the Svenska Academies and elected as an honorary member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies . In 1907 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1909 to the National Academy of Sciences . On January 24, 1911, he was accepted as a foreign member of the Prussian order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts for his scientific merits .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 200.
  2. ^ THE ORDER POUR LE MERITE FOR SCIENCE AND ARTS, The Members, Volume II (1882–1952), page 246 with picture on the opposite page, Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin, 1978
personal data
SURNAME Retzius, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Retzius, Gustaf Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish histologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1919
Place of death Stockholm