Hermann Friedrich Stannius
Hermann Friedrich Stannius is a German physiologist , born the March 15th 1808 with Hamburg and dead the January 15th 1883 with Sachsenburg.
Wire of a tradesman, begins his studies of Médecine in Akademisches Gymnasium in 1825. To supplement them, it goes to Berlin in 1828 then to Breslau where it obtains its doctorate by supporting a thesis of comparative anatomy the November 26th 1831. It turns over then to Berlin where he becomes assistant in Friedrichstädter-Krankenhaus, until in 1837, while he exerts in a cabinet of city. In parallel, it undertakes research on the Insecte S and in anatomical pathology.
The October 3rd 1837, Stannius is seen offering a full-time post of professor of comparative anatomy, physiology and general pathology at the university of Rostock as well as the direction of the institute working on the same subjects.
Although of fragile health since 1843, it is named vice-chancellor of the university in 1850 and continuous to undertake a very active scientific activity until in 1854. As from this year, its state worsens and is accompanied by mental disorders. In 1862, it must give up working and spends the twenty last years of its life in a psychiatric hospital to Sachsenburg.
He is the author of the second volume of Lehrbuch DER vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbeltiere in 1846. He also works on the brain and the nervous system of the Esturgeon S and the Dauphin S (1846 and 1849) and he makes pharmacological research on the effects of the Strychnine (1837) and of Digitaline (1851).
Old friend of the anatomist, zoologist and physiologist Rudolph Wagner (1805-1864) of the university of Göttingen, they sign their famous dictionary of physiology but the participation of Stannius seems very reduced.
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