Education
After studying medicine in Wrocław (Breslau), Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau Langendorff obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Königsberg in 1875, subsequently working there as a research assistant.
physiologist university professor
After studying medicine in Wrocław (Breslau), Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau Langendorff obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Königsberg in 1875, subsequently working there as a research assistant.
In addition, he is credited with discoveries in respiration and in the conduction of impulses in the sympathetic and peripheral nervous system. His work has served as the basis for the use of retrograde perfusion in science and medicine. In 1886 he was elected to membership in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
From 1892 till his death in 1908 Langendorff was professor and director of the physiological institute at the University of Rostock.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.