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{{Short description|German physiologist}}
'''Franz Schweigger-Seidel''' (September 24, 1834 &ndash; August 23, 1871) was a German [[physiologist]] born in [[Halle an der Saale]]. He was the son of [[chemist]] [[Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel]] (1795-1838).
In 1858 he obtained his doctorate from the [[University of Halle]] with a dissertation titled ''Disquisitiones de callo''. Afterwards he served as an assistant to [[Rudolf Heidenhain]] (1834-1897) at the physiological institute in [[Breslau]], and from 1865 was an assistant to [[Carl Ludwig]] (1816-1895) at the [[University of Leipzig]]. In 1866 he received his habilitation, and during the following year became an associate professor at [[Leipzig]].
His name is associated with "[[Schweigger-Seidel sheath]]s", which are spindle-shaped sleeves that cover penicillar [[arteriole]]s of the [[spleen]].
== Selected writings ==
* ''Über den Übergang körperlicher Bestandteile aus dem Blute in die Lymphgefäße'', Leipzig (1861)
* ''Die Nieren des Menschen und der Säugetiere in ihrem feineren Bau'', Halle (1865)
* ''Über das Centrum tendineum des Zwerchfelles''. Arbeiten aus der Physiologischen Anstalt zu Leipzig, with Carl Ludwig (1866)
* ''Einige Bemerkungen über die rothen Blutkörperchen''. Arbeiten aus der Physiologischen Anstalt zu Leipzig, with [[Alexander Schmidt (physiologist)|Alexander Schmidt]] (1867)
* ''Die Lymphgefässe der Fascien und Sehnen''. Leipzig, with Carl Ludwig (1872)
== References ==
* [http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per376 Franz Schweigger-Seidel] (biography)
* [http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/SchweiggerSeidel_992.html catalogus professorum lipsiensis] (biography)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=wUFAGmVN_aMC&pg=PA244 Color atlas of cytology, histology, and microscopic anatomy] by Wolfgang Kühnel (definition of eponym)
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