Karl Hugo Kronecker (27 January 1839 ? 6 June 1914) was a German physiologist from Liegnitz , Prussian Silesia . He was the brother of Leopold Kronecker .

He studied medicine in Berlin , Heidelberg and Pisa , and received the M.D. degree in Berlin. From 1868, he worked in the Leipzig Physiological Institute, (later known as Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology with Carl Ludwig . He received habilitation (permission to lecture) in 1872 with a thesis on fatigue and recovery of skeletal muscles .

In 1878, he moved to Berlin to become department director in the Physiological Institute. In 1885, he was appointed chairman of Physiology at the University of Bern , Switzerland . There he built a new Institute of Physiology.

Kronecker received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901. ^[1]

He died in Bad Nauheim .

Hugo Kronecker and his learner Samuel James Meltzer were the first, who studied (in 1883) oesophageal manometry in humans. ^[2]

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