Felix Jacob Marchand

Felix Jacob Marchand, born in Halle an der Saale in 1846 and died in 1928, was a German pathologist. He studied medicine in Berlin and became an assistant at the pathological institute in Halle. In 1881 he became professor of pathological anatomy at Giessen and two years later took the same position at Marburg, and in 1900 he succeeded the pathologist Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld at the University of Leipzig. In 1904 he is credited with coining the term atherosclerosis, from the Greek for gruel and for hardening, to describe the fatty substance inside a hardened artery. His name is lent to Marchand's adrenals, accessory adrenal tissue in the broad ligament of the uterus. Among his written works was a four volume textbook of pathology, the Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie, which he co-authored with Ludolf von Krehl.