Karl Gegenbaur
Carl or Karl Gegenbaur , born the August 21st 1826 with Würzburg and dead the June 14th 1903 with Heidelberg, is a German anatomist.
He enters to the university of his birthplace in 1845. After having obtained its title of doctor, he travels to Italy and Sicily, before returning to Würzburg. In 1855, he teaches the anatomy with Iéna, then starting from 1858 with Heidelberg where he also directs the Institute of anatomy. He withdraws his function in 1901.
Its most known work is its Grundriss DER vergieichenden Anatomk , published in Leipzig in 1874. They clarify the importance of the Embryologie for the study of the evolution while being based on the comparative Anatomie bodies homologous S (he is the similar bodies with a zoological group to another: legs before Mammalian S, the wings of the Bird X, etc) with Jacques von Bedriaga and Ernst Haeckel. This work is worth to him the Médaille Copley in 1896.
Among his other works, one can quote a handbook of human Anatomie (1883), a comparative study between the anatomy of the Vertébré S and those of the Invertébré S.
Gegenbaur founds in 1875 the review Morphologisches Jahrbuch .
It publishes a short autobiography in 1901 pennies the title Erlebtes und Erstrebtes .
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