Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart

Andreas Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart ( born August 26, 1794 in Helmstedt; † August 25, 1843 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German physician and naturalist.

Life

Leuckart studied medicine from 1812 to 1816 at the University of Göttingen, where he became in 1813 a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen. In 1823 he was a lecturer and in 1829 professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Leuckart 1832 was professor of physiology, comparative anatomy and zoology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Leuckart in 1828 was appointed a member of the Leopoldina. His nephew was the zoologist Rudolf Leuckart.

Works

• Zoological fragments, 1819-42, 3 booklets
• Attempt at a nature- division of helminths, Heidelberg 1827;
• Introduction to the Organiatrik and in particular the Zoïatrik or animal pharmacology: for lectures on animal pharmacology and as a preparation for the study of the same: network, giving the more important general, Teutonic and foreign, thier medicinal writings. Heidelberg: Winter, 1832;
• General introduction to the natural history. Stuttgart: E. Content Free Trial, 1832;
• Any dissemination of leftover remains of an antediluvian organic creation, Freiburg 1835;
• Study of the intermediate jaw bone of the people in its normal and abnormal metamorphosis: a contribution to the History of Man, together with observations on the Zwischenkieferbein of animals. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 1840.