Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was born on the 29th of December 1816 at Witzenhausen, on the Weser, near Cassel. He graduated at Marburg, in 1839, became prosector under Professor L. Fick, in 1841 and the year after obtained thevenia legendi , offering for his dissertation a paper on the mechanism of the renal secretion. In 1846 he became Extraordinary Professor at Marburg, and in 1849 he was appointed ordinary Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Zürich. In 1855 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Army Medical School (Josef’s-Akademie) at Vienna.