Jacob Henle
Jacob Henle · Science & Medicine
Anatomist who described the loop of Henle in the kidney and anticipated germ theory.
1809, Furth, Bavaria — 1885, Gottingen, Germany
Germany
Jacob Henle is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Anatomist who described the loop of Henle in the kidney and anticipated germ theory.
Henle was a foundational anatomist and pathologist who described the loop of Henle in the kidney and many other microscopic structures, and whose 1840 essay on contagion anticipated the germ theory of disease later proven by his student Robert Koch. He was born into a Jewish family in Furth and converted to Christianity in his youth.
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Anatomist who described the loop of Henle in the kidney and anticipated germ theory.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
