Philipp Stöhr

Philipp Stöhr (13 June 1849 in Würzburg – 4 November 1911) was a German anatomist and histologist.

He studied medicine in Würzburg, where in 1869 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.

[citation needed] As a professor at the University of Würzburg, he developed a leading school of histology and embryology.

[1] He was the author of a landmark textbook on histology and microscopic anatomy, titled Lehrbuch der Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen : mit Einschluß der mikroskopischen Technik (1887), being published over many editions.

(Digital 16th edition from 1915[2] by the University and State Library Düsseldorf) Stöhr's work was translated into English, and published as:

Philipp Stöhr (1872)