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Authorised form of nameGegenbaur; Carl (1826 - 1903)
Other forms of nameKarl
Dates1826 - 1903
NationalityGerman
Place of birthWurzburg, Germany
Date of birth21 August 1826
Place of deathHeidelberg, Germany
Date of death14/06/1903
Research fieldAnatomy
ActivityEducation:
University of Wurzburg. MD
Career:
Professor of Anatomy and Zoology, Jena (1858); Professor of Anatomy, Heidelberg (1873); founded and edited the 'Mophologisches Jahrbuch' (11875)
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election31/01/1884
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1896
RelationshipsFamily was Roman Catholic
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 309-312 signed by H F G
CodeNA1272
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1884/02Gegenbaur, Carl: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001624Gegenbauer, Carl1884
NLB/13/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester23 July 1896
NLB/13/502Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, 76 Jermyn Street, W. 30 September 1896
NLB/13/699Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Carl Gegenbaur5 November 1896
NLB/13/691Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Royal Mint5 November 1896
NLB/13/823Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Herrn Professor Dr Carl Gegenbaur, Foreign Member, Royal society, Anatomical 3 December 1896
NLB/17/410Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Herrn Wilhelm Englemann, Verlagsbuchhandlung, Konigs-Strasse, 10, Leipzig25 October 1898
NLB/13/794Copy letter from Michael Foster, to His Excellency, the German Ambassador26 November 1896
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