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Langhans, Theodor (1839–1915)

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Theodor Langhans Arthur

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Theodor Langhans

Date, Country and City of Birth

September 28, 1839, Usingon (Duchy of Nassau), Germany

Date and City of Death

October 22, 1915, Bern, Switzerland

History of Life

Theodor Langhans was born in 1839 as son of Heinrich Langhans, a judge, and Wilhelmine Stein. He did his gymnasium training in Wiesbaden and then studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Gottingen. In Gottingen he worked with the anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885). Afterward he studied in Berlin under Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), and from there he went to Würzburg, to become an assistant to Friedrich von Recklinghausen (1833–1910). Here he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1864 with a thesis on the structure of tendons. Three years later he was appointed lecturer in pathology at the University of Marburg where he in 1868 described the giant cells in tuberculosis, which would carry his name, Langhans giant cells.

In 1872 he was...

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  • Dhom, G. (2001). Die Lehrstuhle und ihre Inhaber in die 2. Hälfte des 19. JH. Bern: E. Klebs, Th. Langhans, pg 315–320. In Geschichte der Histopathologie. Springer.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1865). Über die entzündlichen Veränderungen der Glomeruli und die akute Nephritis. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 99, 183–250.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1866). Über Betrage zur normalen und Pathologischen Anatomie der Arterien. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 36, 187–225.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1868). Über Riesenzellen mit wandständigen Kernen in Tuberkeln und die fibröse Form des Tuberkels. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 42, 382–404.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1871). Primärer Krebs der Trachea und der Bronchien. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 53, 470–484.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1897). Anatomische Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Cretinen. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 149, 155–187.

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  • Langhans, Th. (1907). Über die epithelialen Formen der malignen Struma. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, 189, 69–188.

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  1. Department of Pathology, UMC Utrecht, Heidelberglaan, 100, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan G. van den Tweel

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van den Tweel, J.G. (2016). Langhans, Theodor (1839–1915). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_3945-1

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