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Hugo Kronecker
German physiologist (1839–1914).
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German physiologist (1839–1914).
Karl Hugo Kronecker (27 January 1839 – 6 June 1914) was a German physiologist from Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia. He was the brother of Leopold Kronecker. He studied medicine in Berlin, Heidelberg and Pisa, and received the M.D. degree in Berlin. From 1868, he worked in the Leipzig Physiological Institute, (later known as Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology with Carl Ludwig. He received habilitation (permission to lecture) in 1872 with a thesis on fatigue and recovery of skeletal muscles. In 1878, he moved to Berlin to become department director in the Physiological Institute. In 1885, he was appointed chairman of Physiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. There he built a new Institute of Physiology. Kronecker received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901. He died in Bad Nauheim. Hugo Kronecker and his learner Samuel James Meltzer were the first, who studied (in 1883) oesophageal manometry in humans.
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Achievements and distinctions
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German physiologist (1839–1914).
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Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Leipzig University · University of Bern · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Marey Institute
Memberships
Royal Society of London · German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina · American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Hungarian Academy of Sciences · Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium · National Academy of Sciences · Burschenschaft Allemannia zu Heidelberg · Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Education
Heidelberg University · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fields of work
physiology
Places of work
Leipzig
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