Daniel Frederik Eschricht
Danish physician and zoologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Frederik Eschricht was a Danish zoologist, physiologist, and anatomist known as an authority on whales. He was born in Copenhagen, and studied medicine at Frederiks Hospital, graduating in 1822. He was a student of François Magendie in Paris from 1824-1825, composing a thesis on cranial nerves, after which he studied with prominent European naturalists and anatomists, including Georges Cuvier. He joined the University of Copenhagen in 1829, becoming Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in 1836. The gray whale genus Eschrichtius was named for him a year after his death. In 1861, Eschricht dissected an orca and found thirteen common porpoises and fourteen seals inside. Jules Verne referred to the incident in the Sargasso chapter of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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- Zoologisch-anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen über die nordischen Wallthiere (12)
- Anatomisk-physiologiske undersögelser over salperne (2)
- Anatomiske undersøgelser over Clione borealis. (1)
- Wie lernen Kinder sprechen? Ein Vortrag gehalten im wisschaftlichen Vereine zu Berlin am 29. Januar 1853 (0)
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