Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich.
epidemiologist pathologist university professor
He studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich.
After obtaining his medical degree, he relocated to Italy, working at the Universities of Turin and Pavia until 1864. Afterwards he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Naples. While still a student, he took part in Karl Thiersch"s research that demonstrated the epithelial origin of cancer.
He performed histological and histopathological studies of the skin and was the first scientist to discover desmosomes and the tonofilament system, but was unable to identify the role these structures played from a physiological basis.
During the early part of the century, Schrön claimed that there were pathological differences between tuberculosis and lung phthisis, asserting the existence of a phthisiogenous microbe. In 1883 he was ennobled by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and awarded with the "Order of Merit" of the Bavarian crown.
Schrön died on 13 May 1917 in Naples.