Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
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Johann Christophe Andreas Mayer (8 December 1747 – 5 November 1801)[1] was a German anatomist.[2]
Mayer worked in Berlin and later Frankfurt. In 1788, he was the first European to recognize that fingerprints were unique to each individual.[3][4]
His 1779 work Anatomische-Physiologische Abhandlung vom Gehirn, Rückmark, und Ursprung der Nerven mistakenly referred to the hippocampus as "hippopotamus" in reference to the digitations of the anterior part of the hippocampus. This terminology was adopted by German anatomists in the following decades.[5]
Notes
- ^ Leone, Massimo (2021). "From Fingers to Faces: Visual Semiotics and Digital Forensics" (PDF). Int J Semiot Law. 34 (2): 579–599. doi:10.1007/s11196-020-09766-x. PMC 7902585. PMID 33679005. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Integrated Authority File". wikidata. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Mayer, Johann Christoph Andreas (1788). Anatomische Kupfertafeln nebst dazu gehörigen Erklärungen [Anatomical Illustrations (etchings) with Accompanying Explanations, volume 4]. Berlin, Prussia: Georg Jacob Decker und Sohn. p. 5. From page 5: "Zweite Figur. … Obwohl niemals bey zween Menschen die Lagen der Hautwärzgen übereinkommen, … " (Second figure. … Although the positions of the skin papillae never agree between two people, … ) Available on-line at: University of Heidelberg. See also: illustrations of friction ridges.
- ^ Miller Grinstead, Charles; Paul Peterson, William; Laurie Snell, James (2010). Probability Tales. USA: American Mathematical Society. p. 192. ISBN 9780821852613. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ Duque-Colorado, Jhonatan; García-Orozco, Laura; Castillo-Martínez, Alicia; Sol, Mariano del (2025-04-03). "Hippocampus and cornu ammonis: mythonyms that prevail in Terminologia Anatomica, Terminologia Neuroanatomica, and Terminologia Histologica". Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 19. doi:10.3389/fnana.2025.1582837. ISSN 1662-5129. PMC 12003425. PMID 40248154.