Gustav Schwalbe

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Gustav Albert Schwalbe, M.D. (August 1, 1844, Quedlinburg - April 23, 1916, Straßburg) was a German anatomist and anthropologist.

He was educated at the universities of Berlin, Zurich, and Bonn (M.D. 1866), he became in 1870 privat-docent at the University of Halle, in 1871 privatdozent and prosector at the University of Freiburg in Baden, in 1872 assistant professor at the University of Leipzig, and then professor of anatomy successively at the universities of Jena (1873), Königsberg (1881), and Strasburg (1883).

[edit] Literary works

• an editor of the Jahresberichte für Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte
• an editor of the Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie
• He edited also the second edition of Hoffmann's Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen (Erlangen, 1877-81)

and is the author of:

• Lehrbuch der Neurologie, ib. 1881;
• Ueber die Kaliberverhältnisse der Nervenfasern, Leipzig, 1882;
• Lehrbuch der Anatomie der Sinnesorgane, Erlangen, 1886;
• Studien über Pithecantropus Erectus, Leipzig, 1899;
• Der Neander Schädel, ib. 1901;
• Vorgeschichte der Menschen, ib. 1903;

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

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