Background
KRONECKER, Charles Hugh was born on January 27, 1839 in Liegnitz,Silesia. Son of late F. Kronecker, merchant and landowner, and Jane Prausnitzer.
KRONECKER, Charles Hugh was born on January 27, 1839 in Liegnitz,Silesia. Son of late F. Kronecker, merchant and landowner, and Jane Prausnitzer.
Gymnasium of Liegnitz. Studied medicine, Berlin, 1858-1861. Heidelberg, 1861-1862.
Pisa, 1862-1863; took degree, Berlin, 1863. Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Science Cambridge. Doctor of Laws Glasgow.
Physician, 1865; scientific private assistant of Doctor Traube. Worked in Doctor Kiihne’s laboratory. Mostly interested in Physiological Physics and Technics.
Volunteered as doctor in Austrian camjjaign, 1866. Franco-German war, 1870-1877P. Investigations on muscle fatigue in Heidelberg under Helmholtz.
Dissertation, 1863, Berlin. Myological work under C. Ludwig in Leipzig, 1868. Assistant there at the Physiological Institute, 1876.
Lecturer at the University, Professor extraord. Called to Berlin as Professor and Director of Department of Physiological Institute of University. Honorary member AmericanlAcademy of Ai ts and Sciences, Aeademie Royale de Mёdecine de Belgique,Societ6 royale de Sciences, Bruxelles, Pliys.
Society, Leipsic; Veterinary Institute Dorpat. Foreign Associate National Academy of Sciences, United States of America. Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Physiol Society.
Academia dei Lincei, Rome. Hungarian Academy, Budapest. Societe de Biologie, Paris.
Academy, Upsala; Bologna. Medicosurgical Society Bologna. Medical phys. Academy, Florence.
Royal Academy, Torino. British Association, for Advocate of Science. Leop. Carol. Academy, Vienna.
Verein f. innere Medizin and Gesellschaft f. Charity-arzte, Berlin. Physiol. Gesellschaft, Berlin.
Member of Committee Internat. Physiol. Congress; Director of Institut Marey, Boulogne sur Seine. Owner of the Eisernes Kreuz.
Professor ord. of Physiology. Berne University, since 1884. Berlin and Geneva, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh.
Mountain climbing.
Spouse 1881, Gertrude Bredschneider.