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Max Johann Sigismund Schultze

1825–74

German anatomist. MD, Greifswald, 1849; privat-dozent, 1850–4. Assistant professor of anatomy, Halle, 1854–9. Professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical institute, Bonn, 1859. Founder and editor of Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie, 1865–74. Noted for his work in microscopy, the reform of cell theory, and descriptive and taxonomic studies of rhizopods and sponges.

Sources

DBE

DSB.

Bibliography

DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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