Karl von Bardeleben was a German anatomist born in Giessen. He was the son of surgeon

Surgeon

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 Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben

Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben

Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben was a German surgeon born in Frankfurt .He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Giessen, Paris and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1841. Later he became a professor of surgery at the University of Greifswald...

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From 1873 he worked as prosector

Prosector

A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and pathology....

 at the University of Jena, where he later served as an associate professor (from 1878) and full professor (from 1898). Bardeleben specialized in the fields of topographic and 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:...

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In 1886 Bardeleben was founder of the Anatomischer Anzeiger (Annals of Anatomy). The Annals of Anatomy journal is considered to be one of the better publications on anatomical morphology

Morphology (biology)

In biology, morphology is a branch of bioscience dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features....

. The journal contains many original treatises on topographic and clinical anatomy, embryology

Embryology

Embryology is a science which is about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage...

, cell and tissue research

Cell and Tissue Research

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, as well as microscopic and "submicroscopic" biology

Biology

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In 1892, Bardeleben published the collected anatomical writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...

 (1749-1832), titled Goethe als Anatom. Other important writings by Bardeleben are:

• Atlas der topographischen Anatomie des Menschen: für Studierende und Ärzte (Atlas of applied (topographical) human anatomy for students and practitioners); with Heinrich Haeckel, in collaboration with Fritz Frohse (1871-1916) and Theodor Ziehen
  Theodor Ziehen
  Georg Theodor Ziehen was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Frankfurt am Main. He was the son of noted author, Eduard Ziehen ....
  
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• Anleitung zum Praeparieren auf dem Seciersaale (1884)