Joseph Disse

German anatomist and histologist
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IntroGerman anatomist and histologist
A.K.A.Joseph Hugo Vincenz Disse
A.K.A.Joseph Hugo Vincenz Disse
PlacesGermany
wasScientist Anatomist Histologist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Biology Healthcare Science
Gender
Male
Birth25 December 1852, Brakel
Death9 July 1912Oberstdorf (aged 59 years)
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Biography

Joseph Hugo Vincenz Disse (25 December 1852 – 9 July 1912) was a German anatomist and histologist born in Brakel, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Biography

Disse studied at the University of Erlangen, and after graduation became an assistant to anatomist Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921) at Strassburg. From 1880 to 1888 he was an instructor at the University of Tokyo, and afterwards became an associate professor at the University of Göttingen. From 1895 to 1912 he was a professor at the University of Marburg.

He specialized in the fields of microscopic anatomy, embryology and histology. His name is associated with the "space of Disse", which is a perisinosoidal space of the liver.

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