Friedrich Bidder
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Friedrich Bidder | |
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Born | 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1810 Treppenhof Manor, Treppenhof, Kreis Walk, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (in present-day Trapene, Smiltene Municipality, Latvia) |
Died | 27 August [O.S. 15] 1894 (aged 83) Dorpat, Kreis Dorpat, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (present-day Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia) |
Nationality | Baltic German |
Alma mater | Imperial University of Dorpat |
Scientific career | |
Fields | physiology and anatomy |
Institutions | Imperial University of Dorpat |
Doctoral students | Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer |
Georg Friedrich Karl Heinrich Bidder (9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1810 – 27 August [O.S. 15] 1894) was a Baltic German physiologist and anatomist from what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire.
In 1834 he received his doctorate from the University of Dorpat, where he became a professor of anatomy (1842), and physiology and pathology (1843). He was a corresponding member (1857) and honorary member (1884) of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (today Russian Academy of Sciences). He was the president of the Naturalists' Society at the University of Dorpat from 1877 to 1890.
Bidder is primarily remembered for his studies of nutrition and gastric physiology. From 1847 to 1852 he performed physiological-chemical studies of digestive juices and metabolism with chemist Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (1822–1894). He also conducted important investigations of the sympathetic nervous system with Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801–1877) and of the spinal cord with Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902).
Bidder's name is associated with two anatomical structures:
- "Bidder's ganglia": Ganglia located at the lower end of the atrial septum; sometimes called the ventricular ganglia.
- "Bidder's organ": A spherical, brownish reproductive organ of male toads.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Bing, Franklin C. (1973). "Friedrich Bidder (1810–1894) and Carl Schmidt (1822–1894)—A Biographical Sketch". The Journal of Nutrition. 103 (5): 637–648. doi:10.1093/jn/103.5.637. PMID 4575658.
- Official site of Russian Academy of Sciences (2 December 2002). Bidder Fridrikh Genrikh. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Russian: Биддер Генрих-Фридрих. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. 1890–1907.
- German: Achard Thomas, Der Physiologe Friedrich Bidder, Zürich, Juris Druck + Verlag, 1969
Further reading
[edit]Culotta, Charles (1970–1980). "Bidder, Friedrich Heinrich". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
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