Konrad Viktor Schneider

Konrad Viktor Schneider (1614 in Bitterfeld – 10 August 1680 in Wittenberg) was a German physician and anatomist.

He studied at the University of Wittenberg, and in 1636 became a professor of medicine at the University of Jena. Two years later he returned to Wittenberg, where in June 1640 he was appointed professor of anatomy and botany.^[1][2]

In 1660–62 he published "De catarrhis", a multi-volume work in which he refuted the long-held belief that nasal mucus was a cerebral secretion.^[1][3] The eponym "Schneiderian membrane" is another name for the nasal mucosa.^[4]

Selected works

• Liber de osse cribriformi, 1655.
• De catarrhis, 1660.
• De pleuripneumonia dissertatio medica (proponit Christoph Schrödter, 1662).
• Disputatio inauguralis medica de angina (respondent János Friedel, 1666).
• Disputatio medica de peste, morborum principe (respondent Johann Gerdes, 1680).^[5]

In 1873 Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx published "Konrad Victor Schneider und die Katarrhe".

References

1. ADB:Schneider, Konrad Victor In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, S. 134.
2. Liber de Catarrhis Antiquariat.de
3. History of Neurology: Handbook of Clinical Neurology edited by Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, Kenneth L. Tyler
4. Library of Health and Living: Encyclopedia of Asthma and Respiratory Disorders by Tova Navarra
5. Most widely held works by Conradus Victor Schneider WorldCat Identities