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Émile Küss
Émile Küss (1 February 1815 – 1 March 1871) was a French physician who, with Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, performed the first recorded biopsy on a tumour. He later entered politics in Strasbourg, became mayor, and played a significant role in the decision of the city leaders to surrender to the Germans in 1870 following the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War. Early life and family Émile Küss was born in 1815 into "an ancient bourgeois family" of Strasbourg. He was educated at the Protestant Gymnasium in Strasbourg and studied anatomy.Chrastil, pp. 178–179. A grandson of his nephew Edouard Küss, son of his brother Théodore, was the surgeon René Küss. Medical career Küss was appointed head of anatomical studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1843 and professor of physiology in 1846. His large family meant that he always needed money and he lectured regularly and gave classes on anatomical drawing despite a pulmonary infection that meant he was someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophile Schuler
Jules Théophile Schuler (18 June 1821 – 26 January 1878) was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938. Life The son of a pastor, he studied painting in his hometown, intaglio printmaking in Karlsruhe and finally took further lessons in the studios of Michel Martin Drolling and Paul Delaroche in Paris between 1839 and 1843. After 1848, he settled in Strasbourg where he painted, illustrated and gave drawing courses. From 1859 onwards, he collaborated with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, for whom he illustrated works by Verne (''Master Zacharius''), Hugo (''Les Châtiments'') and Erckmann-Chatrian, but also an alphabet for children, to which a letter "W" was added when it appeared in an American edition as ''Letters Everywhere: Stories And Rhymes For Children'', and the children's classic ''Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates''. Schuler's masterpiece is the monumental oil on canvas painting ''The Chariot o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
