Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an important figure in the development of modern medicine.
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen was a German pathologist born in Gütersloh, Westphalia. He was the father of physiologist Heinrich von Recklinghausen (1867–1942).
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim was a German-Jewish pathologist.
Nikolaus Friedreich was a German pathologist and neurologist, and a third generation physician in the Friedreich family. His father was psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862), and his grandfather was pathologist Nicolaus Anton Friedreich (1761–1836), who is remembered for his early description of idiopathic facial paralysis, which would later be known as Bell's palsy.
Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann was a German philosopher and anthropologist.
Heinrich von Recklinghausen was a German physician and scientist from Würzburg.
Friedrich Jolly was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a native of Heidelberg, and the son of physicist Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884).
Martin Benno Schmidt was a German pathologist born in Leipzig.
Emil Ponfick was a German pathologist born in Frankfurt am Main.
Theodor Langhans was a German pathologist who was a native of Usingen, Duchy of Nassau.
Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung, sometimes Baerensprung was a German dermatologist born in Berlin. His father, Friedrich von Bärensprung (1779-1841), was mayor of Berlin in 1832-34.
Wilhelm Molitor was a German poet, novelist, canon lawyer and publicist, and Roman Catholic priest. He was a chief promoter of the Catholic movement in the Palatinate.
Hermann Friedrich Lossen was a German surgeon born in Emmershäuser Hütte, Hesse.
Karl Binz was a German physician and pharmacologist born in Bernkastel. He is known for his investigations on the pharmacological properties and effects of quinine.
Friedrich Albin Hoffmann was a German internist.
Bernhard Fischer-Wasels, known as Bernhard Fischer until 1926, was a German physician and anatomical pathologist, who served as Director of the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology (1908–1941), Professor of Pathology (1914–1941) and Rector of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1930–1931). He was a leading cancer researcher and is world-renowned as the father of petrochemical carcinogenesis.
Michael Joseph Rossbach was a German clinician and pharmacologist.
Adolph von La Valette-St. George was a German zoologist and anatomist, known for his research in developmental biology.
Conrad Varrentrapp was a German historian.
Dr Joseph Friedrich ("Fritz") Weleminsky, was a physician, a scientist and a privatdozent in Hygiene at the German University, Prague who, in the early 20th century, created an alternative treatment for tuberculosis, tuberculomucin Weleminsky.
