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JAMA. 1970;213(10):1677-1678.

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Gustav Valentin, son of a Jewish goldsmith of Breslau, displayed an encyclopedic knowledge and was endowed with an enviable retentive memory.¹ He is recognized as one of a small coterie of experimental physiologists in central Europe in the 19th century, who participated in the evolutionary development of experimental physiology as a basic discipline. He attended first a private school and, at the age of 11, entered the Maria Magdalena Gymnasium in Breslau where he pursued general as well as talmudic studies. At the age of 18, Valentin entered the University of Breslau for the study of medicine and natural science. Here he came under the influence of Purkinje, founder of the laboratory for experimental physiology.

When Valentin graduated from the medical faculty in 1832, his scholarly thesis in Latin displayed his great zeal for experimental physiology in the discussion of the embryonic development of muscle tissue. Valentin, ineligible for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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