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Franz Ludwig Fick

German anatomist

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name	Franz Ludwig Fick
image	Ludwick Fick (1813-1858).png
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caption	Franz Ludwig Fick (1813-1858)
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birth_place	Erlangen
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death_place	Marburg
nationality	German
fields	Anatomist
workplaces	University of Marburg
alma_mater	University of Marburg
doctoral_advisor	Christian Heinrich Bünger
doctoral_students	Adolf Fick
notable_students	Carl Ludwig
known_for	Cerebral phantom
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footnotes	He is the brother of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick who invented tonometry. He is the father of the German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick who invented the contact lens.

Franz Ludwick Fick (18 May 1813 – 31 December 1858) was a professor of anatomy at the University of Marburg.

Education

In 1835, he received his MD under Bünger from the University of Marburg.

Career

Fick studied the developmental mechanics of bone growth, especially of the skull. He invented the cerebral phantom - an openable paper model showing the various parts of the brain that became the prototype of openable figures in medical texts. Fick wrote texts on human anatomy and pathology. He studied the mechanism of vision and the function of the retina. He investigated the function and performance of the taste buds and described the anatomy of elephant's ears.

Books by Fick

Franz Ludwig Fick, Tractatus de illegitimo vasorum cursu hominibus innato cum tabulis duabus, typis Elwerti academicis, 1854.

References

Neue Deutsche Biographie, Duncker & Humblot: 1953-1990, Vol. 5, pp. 128–129.
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg: 1962, Vol. 2, p. 515.
Archiv Rassen-Ges. Biol. 1922-3, Vol. 14, pp. 159–175.
I. Schnack, Lebensbilder aus Kurhessen und Waldeck 1830-1930, N. G. Elwert: 1939-1958, Vol. 4, pp. 74–82.

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