Moleschott, JAKOB

Moleschott, JAKOB, physiologist, born at Bois-le-Duc in Holland, 9th August 1822, studied medicine at Heidelberg, and taught there physiology, anatomy, and anthropology from 1847 until 1854, when he resigned his chair, the senate of the university having 'warned' him on account of the strong materialistic tendency of his writings. In 1853 he established a private laboratory and worked in it until 1856, when he was nominated professor of Physiology at Zurich; in 1861 he moved to the university of Turin, and in 1878 to that of Rome, where he died 20th May 1893. He wrote some twenty works, in German and Italian, on various branches of physiological research, including one on the Natural History of Man and Animals (1855).