Science |Jvagress. 



No. 21. November, 1895. Vol. IV. 



CARL LUDWIG, PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY 

 IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG. 



PART I. 



LATE on the night of the 23rd of April there died at 

 Leipzig the great physiologist and teacher, Carl 

 Ludwig, one of the most distinguished savants of the 

 present century. His name will ever remain a distin- 

 guished one on the bede-role of science, while the good- 

 ness, kindness and the singular amiability of his character 

 will be. cherished in the hearts of his numerous pupils, 

 friends and admirers. Although the writer was personally 

 very intimate with him, he feels strongly the difficulty of 

 presenting a picture of the life, personality and work of 

 Ludwig. 



Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwio - , to give him his com- 

 plete name, although he always signed simply C. Ludwig, 

 was born on 29th December, 18 16, on the banks of the 

 Weser, in Witzenhausen, near Cassel, in Kurhessen. He 

 attended the gymnasium in Hanau and subsequently 

 studied medicine in Marburg and Erlangen, and became 

 doctor of Medicine in Marburg in 1 839 at the age of 

 twenty-three. To the end of his days he bore the mark 

 of a cut on his upper lip, a memento of his vivacious 

 youth. In Marburg he became successively Prosector of 

 Anatomy (1841), and Privat-docent of Physiology (1842), 

 and Professor (Extraordinarius) of Comparative Anatomy 

 in 1846. In 1849, he was called as Professor of Anatomy 



and Physiology to Zurich. From Vienna came an in- 



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