Alexander Friedrich von Hueck (7 December 1802 – 28 July 1842) was a Baltic-German professor of

anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

, and a notable estophile.

Life and work

Von Hueck was born in Reval (

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

), in the

Kreis Harrien Harrien County (german: Kreis Harrien, german: Kreis Reval, et, Harju kreis, russian: Revelsky uyezd, russian: Gariensky uyezd) was one of the four counties of the Russian Empire located in the Governorate of Estonia. It was situated in the centr ...

of the

Governorate of Estonia The Governorate of Estonia, also known as the Governorate of Esthonia (Pre-reformed rus, Эстля́ндская губе́рнія, r=Estlyandskaya guberniya); et, Eestimaa kubermang was a governorate in the Baltic region, along with the ...

(present-day

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). He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat (Tartu) from 1821 to 1825, receiving the Gold Medallion in 1823; and later also in Berlin and

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

. In 1830, he was made professor of anatomy at the University of Dorpat (now U of Tartu), becoming Dean of Medicine in 1835, renewed in 1840. In 1838, he conducted a scientific travel through

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with the aim of studying pre-historical animals. He died in Dorpat Tartu on 28 July in 1842. Among his contributions to his scientific field, were observational studies within eye movement. He was a founding member of the student organization 'Estonia', established in Dorpat (Tartu) in 1821. He was one of the founding members in 1838 and from 1842 its president, of the estophile

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in Tartu.

References

* 4. Deutsch-Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon (1710-1960): https://bbld.de 1802 births 1842 deaths People from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien Baltic-German people Estophiles University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu {{Estonia-scientist-stub