872 FRIEDRICH DANIEL VON RECKLINGHAUSEN. 



FRIEDRICH DANIEL VON RECKLINGHAUSEN (1S33-1910) 



Honorary Foreign Member in Class II, Section 4, 1898. 



Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, one of the foremost among 

 the German pathologists, distinguished both as a teacher and in- 

 vestigator, was born in Westphalia in 1833. After passing through 

 the gymnasium he studied medicine in the Universities of Bonn, 

 Wiirzburg, and Berlin, and obtained the doctor degree in 1855. His 

 dissertation and his first medical publication in 1855 was " De pyaeniiae 

 theoriis" in which he reviewed and discussed the different theories 

 concerning pyaemia, giving the reasons in favor of its separation from 

 wound infection. His entry into medicine was at the age when men 

 here are graduating from college. He then devoted himself to pathol- 

 ogy in the laboratory of Rudolf Virchow and after three semesters 

 in Berlin, and studies in Vienna, Rome, and Paris, he was named an 

 assistant in the pathological institute in Berlin in 1858, holding this 

 position until 1864. In the summer of this year, without passing 

 through the usual stages of Docent and Professor Extraordinary, he 

 was chosen as Professor of Pathological Anatomy in Konigsberg, and, 

 after one-half 3- ear here, to the higher post in Wiirzburg. In 1872 he 

 was one of the first professors chosen to the new University founded 

 in Strassburg, where he remained as Professor of General Pathology 

 and Pathological Anatomy until 1906, at which time he became 

 Emeritus. After this he continued to work with his usual diligence 

 in the institute with which his name will always be associated, com- 

 plaining of the short space of time remaining to him for the comple- 

 tion of his numerous investigations. He was instrumental in having 

 called to the new university such men as Golz, Leyden and Waldyer. 

 In 1877 he constructed the new laboratory of the University, and 

 which at that time was regarded as in all respects a model. In 1883 

 he functioned as Rector of the University, and in 1884 he refused the 

 call to Leipzig as the successor to Cohnheim. He died suddenly in 

 1910 in his seventy-seventh year. 



Up to 1862 he had published as assistant to Virchow a large number 

 of minor papers on a variety of subjects, some of them involving chemi- 

 cal research. In 1862 appeared the first of the great monographs for 

 which he was distinguished on " Die Lymphgef iisse und ihre Beziehun- 

 gcn zum Bindegewebe." In this he first described the method of the 

 use of silver to demonstrate the lines of junction of cells, and showed 



