Felix Jacob Marchand

Felix Jacob Marchand was a German pathologist born in Halle an [der Saale].
He studied medicine in Berlin, and later became an assistant at the pathological institute in Halle. In 1881 he became a professor of pathological anatomy in Giessen, and two years later garnered the same position at Marburg. In 1900 he succeeded pathologist Felix [Victor Birch-Hirschfeld] at the University of Leipzig.
In 1904 Marchand is credited with coining the term atherosclerosis from the Greek "athero", meaning gruel, and "sclerosis", meaning hardening, to describe the fatty substance inside a hardened artery. His name is lent to the eponymous "Marchand's adrenals", which is accessory adrenal tissue in the broad [ligament of the uterus].
Among his written works was a 4-volume textbook on pathology that he co-authored with Ludolf von Krehl, called "Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie".