Otto Funke [SEP] place of birth
Otto Funke
Otto Funke (October 27, 1828 - August 17, 1879) was a German physiologist born in Chemnitz.
He studied in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and in 1852 became a lecturer of physiology at the University of Leipzig. In 1853 he became an associate professor to the medical faculty at Leipzig, and in 1860 a professor of physiology at the University of Freiburg. One of his better known students at Leipzig was physiologist Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834-1918).
In 1851 Otto Funke was the
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