Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach (Johann Friedrich Meckel) (1781–1833)

German comparative anatomist and embryologist. Studied in Halle and Göttingen with, amongst others, Kurt Sprengel and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Later worked in Paris with Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Alexander von Humboldt. With Cuvier, systematically analysed the anatomical collections at the Jardin des plantes. Translated Cuvier’s Leçons d’anatomie comparée into German. Professor of anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics, Halle University, 1808–33.