Immanuel Munk

Immanuel Munk (30 May 1852, Posen – 1 August 1903, Berlin) was a German physiologist.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin, Breslau, and Strasbourg, obtaining his doctorate in 1873 with the thesis Versuche über die Wirkung des Kryptopins.

At Berlin, his influences included pharmacologist Oskar Liebreich and chemist Ernst Leopold Salkowski.

[1][2] His research primarily dealt with issues pertaining to nutrition, metabolism, urinary secretions, and the absorption/formation of animal body fat, to name a few.

In 1897, he became editor of the periodical Centralblatt für Physiologie.