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Please [[User:DOI_bot/bugs|report any bugs]]. {{Infobox Scientist |name = {{PAGENAME}} |box_width = |image =Retzius,G.jpg |image_size =200px |caption = {{PAGENAME}} |birth_date = [[17 October]] [[1842]] |birth_place = [[Stockholm]] |death_date = [[21 July]] [[1919]] |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[Sweden|Swedish]] |ethnicity = |field = [[histology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[Uppsala University]]<br/> [[Lund University]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[nervous system]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }}'''Magnus Gustaf Retzius''' ([[17 October]] [[1842]] – [[21 July]] [[1919]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] physician and anatomist who dedicated a large part of his life to researching the [[histology]] of the [[sense organs]] and [[nervous system]]. Retzius was born in [[Stockholm]], son of the anatomist [[Anders Retzius]] (and grandson of the naturalist and chemist [[Anders Jahan Retzius]]). He enrolled at [[Uppsala University]] in 1860, and received his ''[[medicine kandidat]]'' degree there in 1866, transferred to the [[Karolinska Institute]] (KI), where he became ''[[Licentiate|medicine licentiat]]'' in 1869 and completed his doctorate in medicine (Ph.D.) in 1871 at [[Lund University]]. He received an extraordinary professorship in [[histology]] at KI in 1877 and an ordinary professorship in anatomy there in 1889 (acting from 1888), but resigned in 1890 after conflicts with other members of the institute; his wealthy marriage actually allowed him to pursue his research and writing without employment. Gustaf Retzius published more than 300 scientific works in anatomy, [[embryology]], [[eugenics]], [[craniometry]], [[zoology]] and [[botany]]. He gave his name to the millimeter-long Retzius cells in the central nervous system of the leech (Hirudo medicinalis). He was also a [[journalist]] and the editor of the newspaper [[Aftonbladet]] (1884-87). Retzius was married to Anna Hierta, daughter of Aftonbladet's founder [[Lars Johan Hierta]]. Gustaf Retzius was politically liberal and socially active. Together with his wife he founded the [[Hierta-Retzius foundation]], which is now administered by the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]. The foundation has two funds, one for the promotion of biological research and the other for supporting projects of an important scientific or social nature. In 1901 Gustaf Retzius became a member of the [[Swedish Academy]]. ==References== *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Sjöstrand |first=Lars |authorlink= |year=[[2008]]|month=. |title=[Gustaf Retzius--great researcher and controversial cultural personality] |journal=[[Lakartidningen]] |volume=105 |issue=8 |pages=559–61 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 18363303 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Hawkins |first=Joseph E |authorlink= |year=[[2005]]|month=. |title=Sketches of [[otohistory]]. Part 6: Gustaf Retzius |journal=[[Audiol. Neurootol.]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=65–8 | publisher = | location = | pmid = 15650297 |doi = 10.1159/000083361 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Grant |first=G |authorlink= |year=[[1999]]|month=Aug. |title=Gustaf Retzius and [[Camillo Golgi]] |journal=[[Journal of the history of the neurosciences]] |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=151–63 | publisher = | location = | pmid = 11624296 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = |doi=10.1076/jhin.8.2.151.1835 }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Grant |first=G |authorlink= |year=[[2000]]|month=Jan. |title=[The histologist and anatomist Gustaf Retzius. He never received the Nobel Prize in spite of his twelve nominations] |journal=[[Lakartidningen]] |volume=97 |issue=1-2 |pages=64–70 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 10668335 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=Afzelius |first=B A |authorlink= |year=[[1995]]|month=Oct. |title=Gustaf Retzius and [[sperm|spermatology]] |journal=[[Int. J. Dev. Biol.]] |volume=39 |issue=5 |pages=675–85 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 8645550 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = yes |last=HAGGQVIST |first=G |authorlink= |year=[[1960]]|month=Dec. |title=[Gustaf RETZIUS.] |journal=[[Svenska läkartidningen]] |volume=57 |issue= |pages=3699–706 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 13710525 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Retzius, Gustaf}} [[Category:1842 births]] [[Category:1919 deaths]] [[Category:Karolinska Institutet faculty]] [[Category:Members of the Swedish Academy]] [[Category:People connected to Lund University]] [[Category:Swedish scientists]] [[pl:Gustaf Retzius]] [[sv:Gustaf Retzius]]