Henryk Fryderyk Hoyer

Henryk Fryderyk Hoyer (26 April 1834 – 3 July 1907) was a Polish physician and professor at the University of Warsaw who is considered the founder of histology in Poland.

After receiving his medical degree in 1857 he became an assistant to Karl Reichert at the University of Wrocław.

In 1876 he described arteriovenous anastomoses (known as Hoyer bodies[2]) and in 1882 he described a medium for mounting stained material on microscope slides using gum arabica and chloral hydrate.

[5] His students included Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz, Edward Strasburger, Zygmunt Laskowski, Wacław Mayzel, Kazimierz Kostanecki, Teodor Dunin, Zygmunt Kramsztyk, Władysław Matlakowski and Józef Peszke.

Hoyer (senior) died of bone tuberculosis and is buried in the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery.