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TIEDEMANN, FRIEDRICH (1781-1861)

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TIEDEMANN, See also:FRIEDRICH (1781-1861) , See also:German anatomist and physiologist, eldest son of See also:Dietrich Tiedemann (1748- 1803), a philosopher and psychologist of considerable repute, was See also:born at See also:Cassel on the 23rd of See also:August 1781. He graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Marburg in 1804, but soon abandoned practice. He devoted himself to the study of natural See also:science, and, betaking himself to See also:Paris, became an ardent follower of See also:Baron See also:Cuvier. On his return to See also:Germany he maintained the claims of patient and sober anatomical See also:research against the prevalent speculations of the school of LorenzOken, whose foremost antagonist he was See also:long reckoned. His remarkable studies of the development of the human See also:brain, as correlated with his See also:father's studies on the development of intelligence, deserve mention. He spent most of his See also:life as See also:professor of See also:anatomy and See also:physiology at See also:Heidelberg, a position to which he was appointed in 1816, after having filled the See also:chair of anatomy and See also:zoology for ten years at See also:Landshut, and died. at See also:Munich on the. end of See also:January 1861.

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