February 24th
- German anatomist who was the first to show the connection of the vascular systems of the mother and the fetus.
- He is best known for the excellent drawings in his Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani(1747; “Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body”).
- Together with Hermann Boerhaave, he edited the works of the physicians Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey.
