physician university professor
He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the latter institution in 1855. Afterwards he studied pathological anatomy under Rudolf Virchow, the father of modern pathology, and obtained his doctorate with Virchow as his advisor.
He was the father of physiologist Heinrich von Recklinghausen (1867–1942). He subsequently undertook an educational journey to Vienna, Rome, and Paris. From 1866 to 1872 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg, and for more than three decades (1872–1906), a professor at the University of Strassburg.
At Strassburg he helped to recruit a number of important people to the school, such as anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
