Joseph Paneth

Joseph Paneth (6 October 1857 – 4 January 1890) was an Austrian physiologist born in Vienna. Paneth is remembered for his description of "Paneth cells", which are cells that provide host defense against microbes in the mucosa of the small intestine.

Joseph Paneth, ca. 1885

He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna, where he worked with physiologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819-1892). After a short stay at the University of Breslau, he returned to Vienna, where in 1886 he became a lecturer at the university. In 1883-84 he worked at the zoological station at Villefranche, near Nice.

He was a good friend of psychologist Sigmund Freud, who made a posthumous reference of Paneth in "The Interpretation of Dreams".[1] Paneth is also remembered for his correspondence with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

He was the father of chemist Friedrich Paneth (1887–1958).

Notes
  1. Freud Museum London Archived 2007-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
gollark: *Probably* still better than before cities and stuff. Diseases spread anyway then, but less so, and we can actually treat them and have hygiene and sanitation now.
gollark: Still, I think on the whole we're better off disease-wise than the people of, say, 400 years ago.
gollark: Hmm, I suppose so on the population densities one.
gollark: I mean, spreading them better because of increased global travel, sure, but we can also actually treat them now (ish).
gollark: <@354360619622727681> How did we/advanced technology go around causing *viruses* and *diseases*?

References

Further reading
  • Joseph Paneth über seine Begegnung mit Nietzsche in der Zarathustra-Zeit. (Joseph Paneth about his encounter with Nietzsche in Zarathustra period.) Richard Frank Krumel. In: Nietzsche Studien. Internationales Handbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, Bd. 17 (1988), pp. 478–495.


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