Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton
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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 work was in the fields of comparative anatomy
, development history and teratology
.
Sankt Goar
Sankt Goar is a town on the left bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Sankt Goar-Oberwesel, whose seat is in the town of Oberwesel....
. He was the son of engraver Eduard Joseph d'Alton
Eduard Joseph d'Alton
Eduard Joseph d'Alton was a German engraver and naturalist who was a native of Aquileia . He studied in Vienna, and later worked in several locations, including Weimar and Jena. Afterwards he moved to Würzburg, where he worked with embryologist Christian Heinrich Pander...
(1772-1840).
He studied medicine at the University of Bonn
University of Bonn
The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...
, and subsequently taught anatomical drawing at the Berlin Academy of Arts. After the death of Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel , often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle...
(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 work was in the fields of comparative anatomy
Comparative anatomy
Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny .-Description:...
, development history and teratology
Teratology
Teratology is the study of abnormalities of physiological development. It is often thought of as the study of human birth defects, but it is much broader than that, taking in other non-birth developmental stages, including puberty; and other non-human life forms, including plants.- Etymology :The...
.
Works
Among his written works are the following:- Ueber das Nervensystem der Petromyzon (with Friedrich SchlemmFriedrich SchlemmFriedrich Schlemm was a German anatomist who was professor at the University of Berlin.He was born in Salzgitter. As his family could not afford higher education, he was apprenticed to a barber-surgeon in Braunschweig. This gave him the opportunity to study anatomy and surgery at the local...
; 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 BurmeisterHermann BurmeisterKarl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German zoologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861...
; 1854)