Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob

K Codell Carter, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002537

1809–1885 German anatomist and pathologist who provided intellectual background to the rise of the germ theory.

Keywords: anatomy; pathology; aetiology; the germ theory

 Further Reading
    book Henle FGJ (1840) Pathologische Untersuchungen. Berlin: A. Hirschwald.
    book Henle FGJ (1846, 1853) Handbuch der rationellen Pathologie (2 vols). Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn.
    book Henle FGJ (1855–1871) Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen (3 vols). Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn.
    book Biographisches Lexikon hervorrangenden Aerzte (1931) Hirsch A (ed.), 2nd edn. Berlin: Urban und Schwarzenberg.
    Carter KCC (1991/2) Jacob Henle's views on disease causation. Naturwissenschaft, Technik, Medizin 28: 259–264.
    Rosen G (1937) Social aspects of Jacob Henle's medical thought. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 5: 509–537.

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Carter, K Codell(Apr 2001) Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002537]