Eduard Friedrich Weber (1806–1871) anatomist

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

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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

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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

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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

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Written works

With his brother, Wilhelm, he was co-author of ''Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge'' (Mechanics of

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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

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's ''Handwörterbuch der Physiologie''.

References

Biography and publications
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie {{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Eduard 1806 births 1871 deaths People from Wittenberg Leipzig University faculty University of Halle alumni German anatomists German physiologists