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May 01, 1840 Kleinheubach, Bavaria, Germany Died on 01 Jan 1913 (aged 72)
German anatomist and pathologist
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About Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller
- Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller (1 May 1840 – 1913) was a German anatomist and pathologist who was a native of Kleinheubach am Main, Bavaria. He studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen, Berlin and Leipzig, and as a student had as instructors Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898), Carl Ludwig (1816-1895) and Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902).
- In 1866 he received his medical doctorate, and in 1869 was habilitated at Erlangen.
- In 1872 he became professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy at the University of Kiel. In 1899 Heller proved that syphilis was a cause of aortic aneurysm, and with his assistant Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855-1928), he described syphilitic aortitis, a condition sometimes referred to as "Döhle-Heller syndrome". In 1869 he demonstrated how lymph propulsion takes place in the lymph vessels.
