Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton
Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton (July 17, 1803 - July 25, 1854) was a German anatomist born in Sankt Goar. He was the son of engraver Eduard Joseph d'Alton (1772-1840).
He studied medicine at the University of Bonn, and subsequently taught anatomical drawing at the Berlin Academy of Arts. After the death of Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781 to 1833), d'Alton was appointed his successor as professor of anatomy at the University of Halle. He maintained this position until his death in 1854.
His better known works were in the fields of comparative anatomy, development history and teratology.
Works
Among his written works are the following:
- Ueber das Nervensystem der Petromyzon (with Friedrich Schlemm; 1838)
- Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie des Menschen (1850)
- De monstris, quibus extremitates superfluae suspensae sunt (1853)
- De monstrorum duplicium origine (1849)
- Der fossile Gavial von Boll in Württemberg (with Hermann Burmeister; 1854)
References
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