Johann Gottlieb Walter

Johann Gottlieb Walter (July 1, 1734 – January 4, 1818) was a German physician, specialising in human anatomy.

Walter was born in Königsberg. He studied in Königsberg and Berlin under Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach and Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn. He was awarded a medical degree at Frankfurt (Oder) in 1757. After Meckels death, he became professor of anatomy in Berlin in 1774.

Walter started and maintained a large collection and museum of anatomical samples, which was bought for 100.000 Thaler by the state, and became the foundation for the anatomical-zoological collection of the zoology department of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Walter died in Berlin.

Works

• Theses anatomico-physiologicae, dissertationi de emissariis Santorini praemissae (Königsberg 1757)
• Abhandlung von trocknen Knochen des menschlichen Körpers (Berlin 1798)
• Observationes anatomicae (Berlin 1775)
• Myologisches Handbuch (Berlin 1795)
• Epistola anatomica de venis oculi summatim et in specie de venis oculi profundis, retinae, corporis ciliaris, capsulae lentis corporis vitrei et denique de arteria centrali retinae (Berlin 1778)
• Tabulae nervorum thoracis et abdominis (Berlin 1783).

External links

• Works by Johann Gottlieb Walter on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• Royal Society