Franz Christian Boll

Franz ( Christian ) Boll ( born February 26, 1849 in Neubrandenburg, † December 19, 1879 in Rome) was a German physician and physiologist. He discovered in 1876 that rhodopsin ( visual purple ).

Life

Franz Boll was born the fourth of six children and the only surviving son of the father of the pastor and historian Franz Boll in the front südostmecklenburgischen city of Neubrandenburg. Initially informed by the father himself, he received an excellent education and later attended high school Neubrandenburg, where he was Easter 1866 the Abitur. Boll studied from 1866 medicine at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin. As a student of Max Schultze in Bonn, he published several histological work. In 1869 he received his doctorate in Berlin. The following year he passed the state exam and got a job as an assistant in the Physiological Institute of Emil Heinrich Du Bois -Reymond.

For health reasons, Boll tried in the subsequent period for a job in Italy. After he had unsuccessfully applied for a professorship in Genoa, he received in 1873 unexpectedly in Rome a chair of anatomy and comparative physiology. There he published both in German and in Italian. His discovery of visual purple was the basis for further research. Associated with his name are the stronghold 's cells, even Boll- cells in which they are basket cells in the lacrimal gland.

Franz Boll was married since March 18, 1879 to Margaret Traube ( 1856-1912 ), daughter of the Berlin physician Dr. Ludwig Traube. The short marriage remained childless. His widow married in 1885 Professor Guglielmo Mengarini in Rome. With Boll's death was the male line of his family branch, which had produced great scholars in three successive generations, extinguished.

Writings

  • Studies on the dental pulp. In: Archives of microscopic anatomy. Vol IV
  • The ampullae of Lorenzini of Selachians. In: Archives of microscopic anatomy. Vol IV
  • About the construction of the lachrymal gland. In: Archives of microscopic anatomy. Vol IV
  • The connective tissue of the gland. In: Archives of microscopic anatomy. Vol V
  • Contributions to the comparative Histiologie of Molluskentypus. In: Archives of microscopic anatomy. Supplement, Bonn 1869.
  • The Histiologie and Histiogenese the central nervous system. Berlin 1873
  • The principle of growth. 1876
  • Anatomia e fisiologia della retina. Rome 1877
  • After the father's death the editor of the last deliveries of the "Chronicle of the front Neubrandenburg " (1875 ) with an appreciation of its life performance
Franz Boll (historian) Ludwig Traube (physician) Integrated Authority File
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