Heinrich von Ranke (1830 to 1909) was a German physiologist and pediatrician, born at Rueckersdorf and dying in Munich. The son of a theologian, he was the brother of the anthropologist Johannes Ranke and a nephew of the historian Leopold von Ranke. He studied at Berlin, Leipzig, Erlangen and Tuebingen, assisted the physiologist Johannes Peter Mueller and took his doctorate in 1851 with a study of how organic substances behave in the human body. From 1853 to 1858 he was linked to the German Hospital in London and served as a civilian physician in Smyrna and the Crimea. He habilitated at Munich in 1859, directed the children's polyclinic at the Reisingerianum from 1866 and became director of Hauner's Kinderspital in 1886. His publications cover chloroform, ether, cholera in mice and the aetiology of spina bifida.
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8 May 1830
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was a German physiologist and pediatrician
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he was appointed director of the children's polyclinic at the Reisingerianum in Munich
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