Uber die Barten des Schnabel-Walfischers (Balaena rostrata). by [Whales, dentition] ROSENTHAL, Friedrich Christian (1780-1829) - 1829

[Germany]:: Vorgelesen in der Akademie des Wissenschaften am 26. Marz 1829., 1829. Separate. 4to. [127]-132 pp. 3 folding plates (1 colored). Contemporary plain grey wrappers with the author's name written on top corner, small bookseller's label (Munich); wrapper is chipped, split. Very good. ['On the baleen of the beaked whale (Balaena rostrata).'] / Friedrich Christian Rosenthal was a professor of anatomy in Greifswald. Among his teachers was the anatomist Karl Asmund Rudolphi (1771-1832) (to whom this work is dedicated), with whom Rosenthal remained friends throughout his life and who had a great influence on his later work. After surgical training in Wurzburg and Vienna, he returned to Greifswald in 1804 to settle down in the private medical practice he opened and to work on at the University of Greifswald. During his time in there, Rosenthal devoted himself, among other things, to researching the sensory organs of seals, the anatomy of jellyfish and the comparative anatomy of whales. He died of tuberculosis on December 5, 1829, the same year this was published. Due to his early death, some of his writings were left unfinished. The comparative anatomical part of the collection of the Greifswald Anatomical Institute was expanded under his aegis. [Wikip.]. / "Rosenthal was first and foremost a general anatomist, also known for his studies on whales, seals, and jellyfish. His study of the ear led to the description of two eponymous structures: the ce6canalis spiralis cochleae canal in the cochlea and the basal cerebral vein. While he is a famous cochlear explorer, Schacht & Hawkins (2004) state that Rosenthal has probably suffered more than most other inner ear anatomists from posthumously mistaken identity." [Hearing - online].