Leonard Landois

Leonard Landois ( born December 1, 1837 in Münster, † November 17, 1902 in Greifswald ) was a German physiologist.

Life

Landois was the son of Ferdinand Theodor officials Landois and his wife Antoinette Josephine Pollack. The zoologist Hermann Landois was his brother.

Landois graduated from the Gymnasium in Münster Paulinum his schooling and began to study medicine in 1857 at the University of Greifswald. He completed this program successfully in 1861 with his dissertation on parasites. The following year he passed the state exam and worked after a few months as a general practitioner in Münster, where he made ​​a name for himself as an obstetrician.

He then became an assistant at the Anatomical- Physiological Institute in Greifswald, where he was also his habilitation in 1863. In 1867 he married Clara Helen, a daughter of the botanist Theodor Marsson. With her he had a daughter Clara and two sons named Felix and Max Landois Landois, a later Reichsgerichtsrat. 1866 Landois was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina ( German Academy of Sciences ).

With effect from 1 July 1868, he was appointed associate professor of anatomy and physiology; 1872 to full professor. As such, you then summoned him to the director of the physiological institute. During this time Landois was instrumental in that the Institute was able to move into a new building. He also led the research of his teacher Julius Budge (1811-1888) on. One of Landois main disciples was the Münster physiologist Rudolf Rosemann ( 1870-1943 ). Was interrupted his research by taking part in the wars of 1866 and 1870 /71 field staff physician.

Leonard Landois was the first secretary of the company founded on August 1, 1863 Medical Association Greifswald and its Chairman in the years 1887/1888, 1889 and 1899 /1900.

At the age of 65 years, Leonard Landois died on 17 November 1902 in Greifswald.

Works

• Textbook of human physiology (1880 )
• Textbook of human physiology, including histology and microscopic anatomy: with special reference to practical medicine; with 275 woodcuts. 4th Edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1885 ( digitized )
• About the Haarbalgparasiten of Man ( 1861)
• The uremia (1890)