EDITORIALS 



News of the sudden death of Professor Kronecker came as a 

 violent shock to his friends and admirers in the Biochemical Asso- 

 ciation, but to none more so than to the writer, 

 who has been his grateful pupil, and who enjoyed 

 his friendship, since a memorable summer in Bern, fifteen years ago. 



Professor Kronecker was a kind, gracious, sympathetic, gener- 

 ous and stimulating teacher. Active and enthusiastic in high de- 

 gree, Kronecker set an example, in industry in research and in 

 devotion to truth, that has inspired his many pupils the world over. 

 He aroused the spirit of research as few teaching investigators can 

 and, by his attitude of generous fairness to his pupils, he showed 

 that he was far more concerned about the promotion of science than 

 about the professional advancement of Hugo Kronecker. He was 

 not of that cheap and all too common species of " leading scientific 

 men" that regard their pupils as apprentices whose industry and 

 fidelity are merely so much energy and ability for exploitation to 

 the professional and selfish aggrandisement of "the chief." Kro- 

 necker aimed to help his pupils to stand on their own feet, but he 

 refused to "use" them in any sense of the word. This was the 

 never-to-be-forgotten impression that Hugo Kronecker made upon 

 those of his pupils whose faces are pictured with his and our beloved 

 Professor Asher's on the opposite page — an impression which one 

 of these pupils recorded briefly but affectionately eleven years ago 

 in the f ollowing note, in a paper by him describing work done under 

 Kronecker's personal direction : " Throughout practically all of our 

 research, Professor Kronecker not only directed the work, but did 

 a very large share of it. His well-known generosity to his pupils is 

 again shown by his desire that this investigation, which was chiefly 

 his, shall seem to be whollv mine."^ 



Professor Kronecker endeared himself to a multitude of ardent 

 and grateful friends. His memory will ever live in the hearts of 

 all who loved him. His great influence on the advancement of sci- 



'^ American Journal of Physiology, 1903, ix, p. 131. 



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