1825-1874

German Zoologist and Cytologist

Max Johann Sigismund Schultze was a German zoologist and cytologist. Zoology is a part of biology that focuses its study on animal life and the animal kingdom in general. Cytology is the study of cells and how cells function.

Born in 1825 in Freiburg, Germany, Max Schultze attended school at the University of Greifswald in Germany, from which he graduated in 1849. He also studied at the University of Berlin. In 1859, following several years of teaching anatomy in Halle, he began teaching anatomy at the University of Bonn. In 1872 the University of Bonn offered Schultze a chair, a permanent position, and so he became the director of the Anatomical Institute.

Schultze's primary research focus was on a part of the cell he called protoplasm, which essentially includes all the material inside the cell membrane. As a cytologist Schultze's best-known...