author
Max Verworn
1863–1921
A pioneering German physiologist, he helped shape the emerging field of general physiology by asking broad questions about how living cells function. His work linked medicine, zoology, and experimental biology at a time when those boundaries were still taking shape.
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Irritability : a physiological analysis of the general effect of stimuli in living substance
by Max Verworn
Allgemeine Physiologie
by Max Verworn
About the author
Born in Berlin on November 4, 1863, he studied medicine and natural sciences there and later continued his training in Jena with Ernst Haeckel and William Thierry Preyer. He went on to become one of the best-known advocates of general physiology, a field that tried to understand life processes across different organisms rather than within a single specialty.
He taught at the University of Jena before becoming professor of physiology in Göttingen in 1901, and later worked at the University of Bonn from 1910 until his death on November 23, 1921. He is especially remembered for research in experimental and cellular physiology and for helping organize the field through the journal Zeitschrift für allgemeine Physiologie, which he founded in 1902.
His writing and teaching reflected a wide scientific curiosity, bringing together biology, medicine, and philosophy of life in a way that appealed to readers interested in the big picture of living systems. Even today, he stands out as an early thinker who pushed physiology toward a more unified view of life.