Eduard Friedrich Weber (6 March 1806 – 18 May 1871) 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 its ...
and
physiologist. He was a younger brother to physiologist
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) and
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (; ; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
Biography of Wilhelm
Early years
Weber was born in Schlossstrasse i ...
(1804-1891).
Weber was born in
Wittenberg
Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon language, Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the Ri ...
. He studied medicine at the
University of Halle
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...
, receiving his doctorate in 1829. From 1836 he served as
prosector
A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and p ...
in the anatomical institute at the
University of Leipzig
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...
, where in 1838 he became
privat-docent
''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...
with a thesis involving physiological studies on the "
galvano-magnetic phenomena" in humans. From 1847 to 1871 he was an associate professor at Leipzig.
He assisted his older brother, Ernst, with experimentation involving the inhibitory power of the
vagus nerve
The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that interfaces with the parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and digestive tract. It comprises two nerves—the left and right ...
.
Google Books
An introduction to the history of medicine: with medical chronology ... by Fielding Hudson Garrison
Written works
With his brother, Wilhelm, he was co-author of ''Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge'' (Mechanics of walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults o ...
in humans, 1836). With Ernst Heinrich Weber, he collaborated on the treatise ''Wellenlehre'' (1825). Other noted works by Eduard Weber are:
* ''Disquisitio anatomica uteri et ovariorum Puellae septima a Conceptione the defunctae'', 1830 (graduate thesis).
* ''Quaestiones physiologicae de phaenomenis galvano-magneticis in corpore humano observatis'', 1838 - Physiological studies on the galvano-magnetic phenomena observed in the human body.
He also published a number of articles in Rudolf Wagner
Rudolf Friedrich Johann Heinrich Wagner (30 July 1805 – 13 May 1864) was a German anatomist and physiologist and the co-discoverer of the germinal vesicle. He made important investigations on ganglia, nerve-endings, and the sympathetic nerves ...
's ''Handwörterbuch der Physiologie''.
References
Biography and publications
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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1806 births
1871 deaths
People from Wittenberg
Leipzig University faculty
University of Halle alumni
German anatomists
German physiologists