Philipp Stöhr

Philipp Stöhr (13 June 1849, Würzburg – 4 November 1911) was a German anatomist and histologist.

Education and Professorship

He studied medicine in Würzburg, where in 1869 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.^{[citation needed]} As a professor at the University of Würzburg, he developed a leading school of histology and embryology.^[1]

Published works

He was the author of a landmark textbook on histology and microscopic anatomy, titled Lehrbuch der Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen : mit Einschluß der mikroskopischen Technik (1887), being published over many editions. (Digital 16th edition from 1915^[2] by the University and State Library Düsseldorf) Stöhr's work was translated into English, and published as:

• "Text-book of histology, including the microscopical technique", (1898).
• "Stöhr's histology : arranged upon an embroyological basis", (1906).^[3]

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