WAGNER, Rudolf Friedrich Johann Heinrich (Rudolph) (1805 – 1864)
1805 – 1864
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Portrait by C. Oesterley, lithography by G. Honig · [1] [2] · Public domain
1826 CE–1840 CE
#599
Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft. Edited by Karl Friedrich Burdach. 6 vols.
Burdach’s great textbook of physiology was planned to run to 10 vols., but the death of his wife quenched his enthusiasm for the task. Parts of the text were written by von Baer, Rathke, Johannes Müller, R.…
1835 CE
#109.1
Einige Bemerkungen und Fragen über das Keimbläschen (vesicula germinativa).
Wagner saw and described the nucleolus.
1842 CE–1853 CE
#607
Handwörterbuch der Physiologie … hrsg. von R. Wagner.
Wagner was professor at Göttingen. His literary output was enormous. In the above work he contributed the sections on sympathetic nerves, nerve-ganglia, and nerve-endings. This work contained 63 extensive review …
1851 CE
#114
Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. In: Rudolph Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie.
Von Mohl saw and described cell division. English translation, London, 1852.
1852 CE
#1460
Ueber das Vorhandensein bisher unbekannter eigenghümlicher Tastkörperchen (Corpuscula tactus) in den Gefühlswärzchen dermenschlichen Haut, und über die End-Ausbreitung sensitiver Nerven.
First published account of the tactile nerve endings – “Wagner’s corpuscles”.