Hermann Munk was a Jewish German physiologist

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

. He was born at Posen

Poznan

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, studied at Berlin

Berlin

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 and Göttingen

Göttingen

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, and in 1862 became docent

Docent

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 in the former university. Seven years afterward he was promoted to assistant professor, and in 1876 to professor

Professor

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 of physiology

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

 at the veterinary college at Berlin. Besides studies on the productive methods of threadworm

Pinworm

The pinworm , also known as threadworm or seatworm, is a nematode and a common human intestinal parasite, especially in children...

s Munk wrote on the physiology of the nerve

Nerve

A peripheral nerve, or simply nerve, is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of peripheral axons . A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses that are transmitted along each of the axons. Nerves are found only in the peripheral nervous system...

s and especially on the brain

Brain

The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...

:

• Untersuchungen über das Wesen der Nervenerregung (1868)
• Ueber die Funktionen der Grosshirnrinde (1881; second edition, 1890)
• Ueber die Ausdehnung der Sinnessphären in der Grosshirnrinde (1901–1902)
• Ueber die Functionen des Kleinhirns (1906–1908)
• Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Schsphäre der Grosshirnrinde (1910)