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- Born:
- Oct. 17, 1842, Stockholm
- Died:
- July 21, 1919, Stockholm (aged 76)
- Notable Works:
- āDas Menschenhirnā
- Subjects Of Study:
- ear
- nervous system
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Magnus Gustaf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist
Magnus Gustaf Retzius (born Oct. 17, 1842, Stockholmādied July 21, 1919, Stockholm) was a Swedish anatomist and anthropologist best-known for his studies of the histology of the nervous system.
Retziusā Das Menschenhirn, 2 vol. (1896; āThe Human Brainā) was perhaps the most important work written on the gross anatomy of the brain during the 19th century. He served as a professor of histology at the Karolinska Mediko-Kirurgiska Institutet, Stockholm (1877ā1900), where he made important contributions to anatomical descriptions of the muscles of the eardrum, the bones of the middle ear, and the Eustachian tube. Retzius also made a useful study of ancient Swedish and Finnish skulls.
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