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Rudolph Wagner

1805–64

German anatomist, physiologist, and anthropologist. Professor of physiology, comparative anatomy, and natural history at Göttingen University, 1840.

Sources

ADB

DSB.

Bibliography

ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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