Bischoff, THEODOR LUDWIG WILHELM

Bischoff, THEODOR LUDWIG WILHELM, an eminent anatomist and physiologist, and more especially embryologist, was born at Hanover, 28th October 1807. He studied at Bonn and Heidelberg, becoming in 1836 extraordinary professor, and in 1843 ordinary professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Heidelberg. From 1844 to 1855 he filled the same chair at Giessen, where he founded a physiological institute and anatomical theatre, and from 1855 to 1878 at Munich. In the latter year he retired, and he died at Munich, 5th December 1882. Bischoff devoted his studies mainly to embryology and biology, and has left numerous treatises and papers of great value.