Carl Georg Lucas Christian Bergmann (18 May 1814 – 30 April 1865) was a German

anatomist 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 it ...

, physiologist and biologist who developed Bergmann's rule relating population sizes to ambient temperature.Bergmann's rule
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Biography

In 1838 Bergmann received his medical doctorate at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

, and later on, served as ''Obermedicinalrath'' and as a professor of anatomy and physiology at the

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. He produced a series of papers between 1839 and 1862 on comparative anatomy in Johannes Peter Müller'
''Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin''

at Who Named It He obtained his habilitation at the University of Göttingen and was named an associate professor in 1843. From October 1852 he was a full professor and a member of the Medicinal Commission in Rostock. In 1861 he was appointed ''Obermedicinalrath''. He died in

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on 30 April 1865, following his return from

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, where he had resided for the winter because of his deteriorating health.

Publications

* Bergmann, C. (1846)
''Lehrbuch der Medicina Forensis für Juristen''
Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig * Bergmann, C. (1848)
''Über die Verhältnisse der Wärmeökonomie der Thiere zu ihrer Grösse''
. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen. * Bergmann, C. and R. Leuckart (1855)
''Anatomisch-physiologische Uebersicht des Thierreichs. Vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie''
J. B. Müller, Stuttgart.

References

1814 births 1865 deaths German anatomists 19th-century German biologists German physiologists Academic staff of the University of Rostock University of Göttingen alumni Scientists from Göttingen Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{med-bio-stub