Leopold Auerbach

Leopold Auerbach ( born April 28, 1828 in Breslau in Prussia (now in Poland); † September 30, 1897 ) was a German anatomist and pathologist.

Life

Auerbach studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Leipzig. From 1850 he practiced as a physician. In 1863 he became a Privatdozent in 1872 and an associate professor of neuropathology in Breslau. In 1881 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. Auerbach's main field of research was the neuropathology. He was one of the first, for it began histological staining techniques. In 1862 he first described the now named after him Auerbach 's plexus ( myenteric plexus ), a network of nerve cells that controls the motility and peristalsis of the digestive system. In addition, he conducted research on muscle stimulation, muscle hypertrophy and the lymphatic vessels of various organs.

The grave of Leopold Auerbach is located on the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw ( Wrocław).

Works

• About a myenteric plexus. Wroclaw, Morgenstern, 1862.
• Construction of the blood and lymph capillaries. Central African Journal for the medici Sciences, Berlin, 1865.
• Lymphatics of the intestine. Virchow's Archives of Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and Clinical Medicine, Berlin, 33 (1865 ).
• True muscle hypertrophy. Virchow's Archives of Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and Clinical Medicine, Berlin, 53 (1871 ).
• Organic studies. Breslau 1874.