Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (12 July 1833 – 4 February 1910) was a German
anatomist born in
Hanover. He was the son of anatomist
Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause (1797-1868).
Krause studied at
Göttingen, where he became member of
Burschenschaft Hannovera (fraternity). In 1854 he earned his medical doctorate, and later (1860) became an associate professor at the
University of Göttingen. In 1892 he was appointed head of the Anatomical Institute Laboratory in
Berlin.
Krause is known for the discovery and description of
mechanoreceptor
A mechanoreceptor, also called mechanoceptor, is a sensory receptor that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion. Mechanoreceptors are innervated by sensory neurons that convert mechanical pressure into electrical signals that, in animals, ...
s that were to become known as "
Krause's corpuscles", sometimes referred to as "Krause's end-bulbs". His name is also associated with:
* "Krause's membranes": defined as
isotropic bands in
striated muscle fiber that consist of disks of
sarcoplasm and connect the individual
fibrils. Also known as Z-Disc or Dobie's line.
* "Krause respiratory bundle": a fiber bundle that is also known as the "
solitary tract". Sometimes referred to as "Gierke respiratory bundle", named in honor of anatomist
Hans Paul Bernhard Gierke.
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Krause is also remembered for pioneer research in the field of embryology. Among his better known students at Göttingen was bacteriologist Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...
(1843-1910). Krause is credited with the publication of over 100 medical articles.
Written Works
* ''Die terminalen Körperchen der einfach sensiblen Nerven''. Hannover, (Treatise on Krause's corpuscles), 1860
* ''Anatomische Untersuchungen'', 1861.
* ''Die Trichinenkrankheit und ihre Verhütung''
* ''Uber die Nervenendigung in der Geschlectsorganen'', 1866.
* ''Ueber die Allantois des Menschen'', 1875.
* ''Handbuch der menschlichen Anatomie''. (Third edition of his father's work) 3 volumes; Hanover, 1876, 1879, 1880.
* ''Die Anatomie des Kaninchens'', publisher: Leipzig: Engelmann, 1884.
References
''Wilhelm Krause''
@ Who Named It
1833 births
1910 deaths
University of Göttingen faculty
German anatomists
Physicians from Hanover
People from the Kingdom of Hanover
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