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Aug 03, 1867 Berlin Died on 01 Jan 1935 (aged 67)
German anatomist
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About Erich Kallius
- Erich Wilhelm Heinrich Kallius (3 August 1867, in Berlin – 1 January 1935, in Heidelberg) was a German anatomist. He received his education at the Universities of Berlin and Göttingen, earning his medical doctorate in 1892.
- As a student, he had as instructors, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz in Berlin and Friedrich Sigmund Merkel at Göttingen.
- In 1894 he was habilitated for anatomy in Göttingen, where during the following year he became an associate professor.
- From 1907 to 1917, he was a professor of anatomy at the University of Greifswald, followed by a professorship at the University of Breslau (1917-1921).
- In 1921 he was appointed director of the institute of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg.His research was mainly in the fields of comparative anatomy and evolutionary development.
- His primary areas of work included studies on the development of the tongue and of the thyroid gland.
- He is credited with introducing a method of "fixing" Golgi stains so that contrast-stains could be employed with them and the specimens protected by cover-slips.
