Ludwik Teichmann
{{short description|Polish anatomist (1823-1895)}}
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|birth_name= Ludwik Karol Teichmann-Stawiarski
|birth_date={{Birth date|1823|09|16|df=y}}
|birth_place=Lublin, Poland
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|death_place=Kraków, Poland
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}}Ludwik Karol Teichmann-Stawiarski (September 16, 1823 – November 24, 1895) was a Polish anatomist and discoverer of a new way of research in forensic medicine, after whom Teichmann crystals are called.
Life
Teichmann was born on {{Birth date|1823|09|16|df=y}} in Lublin.{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Nordisk familjebok|chapter= Teichmann (T.-Stawiarski), Ludwig| section-url= https://runeberg.org/nfch/0353.html|access-date=Aug 16, 2019|language=sv|edition=2nd|year=1919|volume=28|publication-place=Stockholm|page=662}}{{cite web|url=http://www.khm.cm-uj.krakow.pl/historia-wydzialow-lekarskich-w-polsce/#|title=Ludwik Karol TEICHMANN|website=khm.cm-uj.krakow.pl|language=pl|access-date=Aug 16, 2019}}
In 1856, Teichmann became a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Göttingen. In 1861, he became a Professor of pathological anatomy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. and in 1868 he became a professor of descriptive and comparative anatomy there, where he also served as Rector from 1877 to 1878.
He introduced injection and corrosion techniques into pathology and used them to study the lymphatic system in health and disease.{{Cite journal |last=Gryglewski |first=Ryszard W. |date=2014 |title=Ludwik Karol Teichmann jako preparator [Ludwik Karol Teichmann--a preparator] |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25675729/ |journal=Kwartalnik Historii Nauki I Techniki |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=37–66 |issn=0023-589X |pmid=25675729}} He discovered haemin crystals, now known as Teichmann's crystals.{{Cite journal |last=Olbrycht |first=J. |date=1953 |title=The centenary of the discovery of haemin crystals |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13113905/ |journal=Acta Medicinae Legalis et Socialis |volume=6 |issue=3–4 |pages=211–216 |issn=0065-1397 |pmid=13113905}}
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