Kölliker

Kölliker, ALBERT VON, anatomist and embryologist, was born at Zurich on 6th July 1817, studied natural sciences at Zurich, Bonn, and Berlin, was appointed professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at Zurich in 1845, and in 1847 exchanged this for the chair of Anatomy at Würzburg. He is principally distinguished by his labours in the department of microscopic anatomy and on the development of the embryo. Among his principal works must be named his Handbuch der Geweblehre des Menschen (translated for the Sydenham Society by Busk and Huxley as A Manual of Human Histology), Die Siphonophora oder Schwimmpolypen von Messina, the Challenger Report on Peunatulida (vol. i. 1880), and Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen u. d. höheren Thiere. In association with Von Siebold he started the important Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.