Werner Spalteholz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German anatomist
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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Werner Spalteholz
- Werner Spalteholz (27 February 1861 in Dresden – 12 January 1940 in Leipzig) was a German anatomist. From 1880 to 1885 he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where in 1891 he obtained his habilitation for anatomy.
- In 1892 he became an associate professor and curator of the anatomical collections at the university.
- During World War I, he initially served as chief physician, then as director, of a reserve hospital in Zwickau.
- He was instrumental towards the establishment of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.He is credited for developing a method for making human tissue translucent by drenching it in liquids with similar light refraction properties as the tissue.
- Examples of transparent organ specimens that he produced were put on display at the First International Hygiene Exposition in Dresden (1911).
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