Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (born October 2, 1835 in Lyon , † March 22, 1922 in Vendranges / Département Loire ) was a French anatomist and combined histology with experimental physiology .
Life
Ranvier was the son of a businessman and studied medicine in Lyon . He earned the title of Doctor of Medicine in 1865. Together with Victor André Cornil (1837-1908) he founded a small private laboratory in which they offered a histology course for medical students. Both also wrote a textbook on pathohistology .
In 1867 he became an assistant and taxidermist with Claude Bernard at the Collège de France . In 1875 he got the chair for general anatomy at the same university . In 1897 he founded the journal Archives d'anatomie microscopique with Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899) . In 1900 he retired .
In 1882 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1887 a member of the Académie des Sciences .
Ranvier discovered in 1878 that the myelin, discovered by Rudolf Virchow in 1854 , forms a lipid- rich, insulating sheath that wraps around the nerve fibers . The ring-shaped constrictions discovered by Ranvier in 1871 are named after him ( Ranvier-Schnürring ). The myelin sheath enables the so-called saltatory conduction in nerves .
Works
- Victor André Cornil , Louis-Antoine Ranvier: Manuel d'histologie pathologique . Vol. 1. Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-143-88201-2 (French, first edition: Paris 1869).
- L. Ranvier, Victor André Cornil: Manuel d'histologie pathologique . Vol. 2. Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-174-37026-7 (French, first edition: Paris 1869).
- L. Ranvier: Traité technique d'histologie . Avec gravures in the text. Ed .: Libraire F. Savy. Paris, OCLC 23423838 (French, Internet Archive [accessed October 4, 2011] 1875-1882).
- Leçons sur l'histologie du système nerveux . Paris 1878
- Leçons d'anatomie generale sur le système musculaire . Paris 1880
- Exposé des titres et des travaux de ML Ranvier . Paris 1885
literature
- AI Boullerne: Neurophysiology to Neuroanatomy: the transition from Claude Bernard to Louis Antoine Ranvier. (PDF; 1009 kB) In: Archives Italiennes de Biologie , 149 (Suppl.), 2011, pp. 38–46.
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Ranvier, Louis Antoine. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1213 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Louis-Antoine Ranvier. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 18, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ranvier, Louis-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1922 |
| Place of death | Vendranges |