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Purkyně was born on December 17, 1787, in the Kingdom of Bohemia (then part of the Austrian monarchy, now Czech Republic. )
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Excerpt from De Phaenomeno Generali Et Fundamentali Motus Vibratorii Continui in Membranis Cum Externis Tum Internis Animalium Plurimorum Et Superiorum Et Inferiorum Ordinum Obvii: Commentatio Physiologica Re's habetur et fertur, illis, in quibus hodie ignoramus, posteriorum indagini remissis ac tradidisi Quid de systematte nervoso? Quod existere in animalculis, quae dicunt infusoria, paucis abbino annis tot tantique observatores adeo negarunt, uti Germanae phy siologiae olim quasi dux et antistes, quod nervorum vestigia ab iis abessent, charactereih. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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anatomist physiologist scientist
Purkyně was born on December 17, 1787, in the Kingdom of Bohemia (then part of the Austrian monarchy, now Czech Republic. )
After finishing the local public school, he received a scholarship to the Gymnasium (secondary school) at Mikulov in Moravia which was administered by the Piarist Order. The classes were taught entirely in Latin and German. In 1818, he graduated from Charles University in Prague with a degree in medicine, where he was appointed a Professor of Physiology.
When he finished the eight-year course, he decided to join the order and teach in the institutions. He was accepted and given a year of special training as well as a chance to teach for another two years in Moravian and Bohemian schools. In his third year of teaching, just before taking his final vows as a Piarist Father, Purkyn changed his mind and with the permission of the Father Provincial left the order. He went to Prague and registered in the school of philosophy at Charles University, where he supported himself by tutoring. At the end of two years he became private tutor to the son of Baron Hildprandt, and to the latter he expressed his keen desire to study medicine. When war broke out between Austria and France, young Hildprandt joined the Austrian Army and young Purkyne's tutoring position ended. Baron Hildprandt offered to finance his medical studies at Prague University Medical School for the next five years. Upon graduating in medicine, Purkyne became a resident for one year at the university hospital in surgery, anatomy, and physiology. His work was so outstanding that he was offered a full professorship of anatomy and physiology at the University of Breslau in Germany; and in 1823, he went there. His extremely modern methods of teaching antagonized the rest of the faculty who preferred to teach in the traditional way, which was to lecture, from antiquated material. He was the first science professor to use demonstration methods and perform actual experiments during his lectures. His lectures were so alive and interesting that students flocked in numbers to his classroom. Soon he became the most popular professor at the university. During these years at Breslau, Purkyne was very productive--making some of the most outstanding discoveries in medicine, inventing some of the earliest diagnostic implements, and devising scientific methods that are still used today. He had to wait nine years to acquire a compound microscope. But with this he was able to make the many discoveries for which he became famous and to establish a whole system of histology. He became known as the "father of histology. " His studies included human cells and fibers, which until then had been undifferentiated; the regularity of the grooves on fingertips which led to dactyloscopy--the scientific study of fingerprints; studies of the human eye, the taste corpuscles, indirect vision, sweat glands, ciliary movement, and of the development of human teeth and their structure. His works on the nervous system included studies of the ganglia cells in the gray matter of the brain, cells of the cerebellum, gastric glands and their relation to digestion, axis cylinder of the nerves, and sympathetic nerves on the arteries, etc. From these discoveries he developed in 1837 the cell theory of life. The instruments he invented were: the spirometer, the perimeter, the ultramicroscope (now known as the "dark field" roscope), the microtome, the microscopic compressorium, the kinesiscope (forerunner of the moving pictures machine), and the autostethoscope. Scientific methods such as microphotography, intravital staining, serial sections, and moving pictures for teaching purposes are credited to him. He also did extensive studies in ophthalmology--the study of anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the eye. He performed experiments on himself with drugs such as emetin, opium, belladonna, stramonium, turpentine ether, nutmeg, camphor, and ipecacuanha. While at Breslau he established the first physiological institute in the world and later, the second one at Prague. In 1850, after twenty-seven years of teaching at Breslau he was recalled to his native country to become professor of physiology at the University of Prague. His influence on the Czech medical world became enormous because he insisted on lecturing in the Czech language as well as in the required German, a practice opposed by the German professors on the faculty. He helped to establish the first Czech Medical Journal and he organized the Czech Medical Society. An early friendship and some joint research on color perception with the poet Goethe led Purkyne later to translate many German poems by Goethe and Schiller into Czech. He devoted his later years to the nationalistic reawakening of the Czech people in nearly all their activities. Even then he had an active and alert mind. He had command of thirteen languages and the last, Hungarian, he learned when he was past eighty.
Many honors were bestowed on him and he was elevated to the nobility by the Austrian emperor.
The Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, bore his name from 1960 to 1990, as did the standalone military medical academy in Hradec Králové (1994–2004. ) Today, a university in Ústí nad Labem bears his name: Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem. )
The crater Purkyně on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 3701 Purkyně.
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He helped to establish the first Czech Medical Journal, and he organized the Czech Medical Society.
He was married and had two sons.
She was born in 1756 and died in 1834.
He was born in 1746 and died in 1793.
She was born in 1800 and died in 1835.
He was a painter in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He was born in 1832 and died in 1882.
