Christian Georg Schmorl

Christian Georg Schmorl (2 May 1861 – 14 August 1932) was a German pathologist who was a native of Mügeln in the Kingdom of Saxony.

He created an histological stain especially designed to show the canaliculi and lamellae in sections of bone.

Shortly before his death, Schmorl published Die Gesunde und Kranke Wirbelsäule (The Healthy and Sick Spine).

He died from sepsis caused by an infected finger, which he nicked in the process of dissecting a spine.

In 1904 Schmorl coined the term kernicterus to describe nuclear jaundice of the basal ganglia.