From 1842 to 1848 he studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, where he graduated in 1848 with a dissertation entitled Beiträge zur Hall'schen Lehre von einem excitomotorischen Nervensystem (Contributions to the Hallerian Theory of an Excitomotor Nervous System).
Physiology | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | physiology | Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology | International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology | sterility (physiology) | transduction (physiology) | Stimulus (physiology) | stimulus (physiology) | Respiratory physiology | Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology | Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique | Hallerian physiology | Experimental Physiology | ''Anatomy and Physiology'' |