Gegenbaur, KARL

Gegenbaur, KARL, German comparative anatomist, was born on 21st August 1826, at Würzburg, where he was educated, and where he taught until 1855. In this year he was called to a medical professorship at Jena, but from 1858 to 1873 he taught principally anatomy. Removing to Heidelberg in 1873, he has since that date continued to lecture on the same subject. His fame rests upon his Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie (2d ed. Leip. 1878), which was translated into English that same year by F. J. Bell and E. Ray Lankester. Besides this he has published Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen (1883; 5th ed. 1892), and since 1875 has edited the Morphologisches Jahrbuch.