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May 9, 2011 · Hilde Mangold, previously Hilde Proescholdt, was a German embryologist and physiologist who became well known for research completed with Hans Spemann in the 1920s. As a graduate student, Mangold assisted Spemann and together they discovered and coined the term the "organizer." The organizer discovery was a crucial contribution to embryology ...
Hilde Proescholdt was born in Gotha, Thuringia, a province in central-eastern Germany on October 20, 1898. She was the middle daughter of soap factory owner Ernest Proescholdt and his wife Gertrude. She attended the University of Jena in Germany for two semesters in 1918 and 1919 and then transferred to the University of Frankfurt in Germany where she also spent two semesters.
Feb 1, 2006 · Hilde Proescholdt married embryologist Otto Mangold, had a baby boy, and died tragically a few months later at the age of only 26, just before her landmark paper was published.
- Edward M. De Robertis
- 2006
Hilde Mangold, Embryonic Induction, and the Spemann Organizer. Hilde Mangold was born 20 October 1898 in Gotha Thuringia, an east central German province. Her parents, Ernest and Gertrude Proescholdt, owned a soap factory, and were considered quite wealthy for the time. Little else is known about Hilde’s early life.
figure is Hilde Proescholdt, later Hilde Mangold, who for her doctoral dissertation executed the crucial experiments that demonstrated the nature and location of the organizer that induces the pattern of embry-onic differentiation. The resulting paper by Spemann and Hilde Mangold led to Spemann's Nobel Prize in 1935; but Mangold had died long be-
Hilde Proescholdt was born in Gotha, Thuringia, a province in central-eastern Germany on October 20, 1898. She was the middle daughter of soap factory owner Ernest Proescholdt and his wife Gertrude. She attended the University of Jena in Germany for two semesters in 1918 and 1919 and then transferred to the University of Frankfurt in Germany where she also spent two semesters.
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Hilde Mangold (1898-1924) Hilde Mangold, previously Hilde Proescholdt, was a German embryologist and physiologist who became well known for research completed with Hans Spemann in the 1920s. As a graduate student, Mangold assisted Spemann and together they discovered and coined the term the "organizer."
