Bernhard Solger

Bernhard Solger

Bernhard Solger (5 December 1849, Untermerzbach – 21 February 1935, Neisse) was a German anatomist.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen, Würzburg, Tübingen and Munich. During the Franco-Prussian War, he served as a doctor in a field hospital. In 1872 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Würzburg, later working as an assistant at the University of Breslau (1875). Beginning in 1877, he worked as a prosector at the University of Halle, where in 1882 he gained an associate professorship. In 1886 he was appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Greifswald.^[1] In 1904 he settled in the city of Neisse as a dermatologist.^[2]

Known for his research in the field of cellular anatomy, he made valuable contributions in his studies of chromatophores (pigment cells).^[3][4]

Published works

• Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Niere und besonders der Nierenpigmente niederer Wirbelthiere, 1882 - Contributions to the knowledge of the kidney, particularly the renal pigments of lower vertebrates.
• Zur Structur der Pigmentzelle, 1889; in the publication "Connective tissue" - On the structure of the pigment cell.
• Ueber pigmentirte Zellen und deren Centralmasse, 1890 - The pigment cell and its centrosphere.
• Zelle und Zellkern, 1892 - On the cell and cell nucleus.
• Zur Kenntnis der Chromatophoren der Cephalopoden u. ihrer Adnexa, 1898 - To the understanding of the chromatophores of cephalopods and their appendages.
• Über Melanose der Dickdarmschleimhaut, 1898 - On melanosis of the colon mucosa.
• Zur Kenntnis des Schenkelsporns (Merkel) und des Wardschen Dreiecks, 1900 - On the femoral calcar and Ward's triangle.
• Über die "intracellulären Fäden" der Ganglienzellen des elektrischen Lappens von Torpedo, 1902 - On "intracellular threads", the ganglion cells of the electrical lobes of torpedo fish.
• Hautpigment und Belichtungen klinischer Beobachtungen: nebst Bemerkungen über die Vererbungsprobleme, 1909 - Clinical observations involving skin pigment, with comments dealing with problems of heredity.^[5][6][7]

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