Max Clara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Clara

Austrian scientist

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1899

Place of Birth: Völs am Schlern, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1966

Profession: university teacher, military physician, anatomist

Nationality: Austria, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Max Clara (12 February 1899, Völs am Schlern, Italy – 13 March 1966, Munich) was a German anatomist.
He was appointed as Chair of Anatomy at Leipzig University in 1935.
Clara is known for having close ties with the Nazi Party, controversially basing much of his work on his studies of the bodies of executed prisoners, without the consent of the prisoners' families.
His main work, "Das Nervensystem des Menschen" (The Nervous System of Humans, alternatively The Human Nervous System) was written in 1942 in Leipzig during the Third Reich's dictatorship. In 1937, he discovered previously unknown cells found in human lungs, which were later eponymously named Clara cells; because this was considered equivalent to honoring him, in 2013 medical journals began a two-year transition period of changing the name from "Clara cell" to "club cell".