Heinrich Israel (Heinrich) Ranke
1830–1909
German physiologist and paediatrician. Studied at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Erlangen, and Tübingen. MD 1851; doctor at the German Hospital, London, 1853–8; civilian physician in the service of the British government in Smyrna and in the Crimea, 1855–6. Habilitated in paediatrics, University of Munich, 1859; honorary professor, 1863. Director of the children’s clinic at the Reisingerianum, Munich, and of the university paediatric clinic of the Hauner Children’s Hospital, 1866. Professor extraordinarius for paediatrics, Munich, 1874. Ennobled, 1893.
Sources
DBE
NDB
Pagel 1901, pp. 1344–5
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NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
Pagel, Julius Leopold. 1901. Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg.
