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Also Known As Meckel the Younger
Born October 17, 1781 • Halle • Germany
Died October 31, 1833 (aged 52) • Halle • Germany
Subjects Of Study Meckel diverticulum
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Walther Flemming
German biologist
Franz Joseph Gall, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a portrait by Karl Heinrich Rahl, c. 1812
Franz Joseph Gall
German anatomist and physiologist
Karl Gegenbaur.
Karl Gegenbaur
German anatomist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss anatomist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Albinus, Bernard Siegfried: engraving of human skeleton
Bernard Siegfried Albinus
German anatomist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist