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A distinguished German physiologist and anthropologist; born at Bayreuth, June 30, 1805; died May 13, 1864, at Gottingen, where he had been professor since 1840. Among his writings are: "Text-Book of Comparative Anatomy" (1834); "Text-Book of Physiology" (1839); "Hand-Dictionary of Physiology" (4 vols., 1842-53); "Creation of Man and Soul Substance" (1854); "Of Knowledge and Belief, with Special Reference to the Future of the Soul" (1854); "The Struggle Over the Soul" (1857); "Zoologico-Anthropological Researches" (1861); "Preliminary Studies toward a Scientific Morphology and Physiology of the Human Brain as an Organ of Soul" (two parts, 1860-62).