Heinrich Israel (Heinrich) Ranke (1830–1909)

German physiologist and paediatrician. Studied at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Erlangen, and Tübingen. MD 1851; doctor at the German Hospital, London, 1853–8; civilian physician in the service of the British government in Smyrna and in the Crimea, 1855–6. Habilitated in paediatrics, University of Munich, 1859; honorary professor, 1863. Director of the children’s clinic at the Reisingerianum, Munich, and of the university paediatric clinic of the Hauner Children’s Hospital, 1866. Professor extraordinarius for paediatrics, Munich, 1874. Ennobled, 1893.