Karl von Bardeleben

Who was Karl von Bardeleben?

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

He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1874 he became a Privatdozent at the University of Jena, where he later served as an associate professor and full professor. Bardeleben specialized in the fields of topographic and comparative anatomy.

In 1886 Bardeleben was founder of the Anatomischer Anzeiger, a journal that is considered to be one of the better publications on anatomical morphology. The journal contains many original treatises on topographic and clinical anatomy, embryology, cell and tissue research, as well as microscopic and "submicroscopic" biology.

In 1892 he published the collected anatomical writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, titled "Goethe als Anatom". Other significant writings by Bardeleben are:

Atlas der topographischen Anatomie des Menschen: für Studierende und Ärzte; with Heinrich Haeckel, in collaboration with Fritz Frohse and Theodor Ziehen.