Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach (Johann Friedrich Meckel)
1781–1833
German comparative anatomist and embryologist. Studied in Halle and Göttingen with, amongst others, Kurt Sprengel and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Later worked in Paris with Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Alexander von Humboldt. With Cuvier, systematically analysed the anatomical collections at the Jardin des plantes. Translated Cuvier’s Leçons d’anatomie comparée into German. Professor of anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics, Halle University, 1808–33.
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DSB
NDB
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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