B Lohff, Medizinischen Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002505
1816–1895 German physiologist, who introduced scientific measurement and instruments into physiological research; important teacher in physiology, and author of numerous investigations of the cardiovascular and secretory systems and metabolism.
Keywords: physiological instruments; cardiophysiology; organic physics; mercury gas blood-pump; kymograph
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Figure 1. Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig (1816–1895).
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| Further Reading | |
| book Ludwig C (1852–1855) Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen. Heidelberg: Winter. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Lenoir T (1988) "Science for the clinic: Science policy and the formation of Carl Ludwig's institute in Leipzig". In: Colmann W and Holmes F (eds) The Investigative Enterprise. Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-century Medicine, pp. 139–178. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| book Neue Deutsche Biographie (1952–) Historische Kommission der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.). Berlin: Duncker & Humbloth. | |
| book Schröer H (1967) Carl Ludwig. Begründer der messenden Experimentalphysiologie. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. | |
| Zimmermann HG (1998) Carl Ludwig: The man, his time, his influence. Pflügers Archiv 432: R9–R22. | |
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