Johann Glaser

Johann Heinrich Glaser (6 October 1629 – 5 February 1675) was a Swiss anatomist.

Glaser was born in Basel, Switzerland where his father was a well-known painter and engraver.

In 1661 he received a doctorate and because of his knowledge of Greek he was appointed professor at 1665 at the Faculté de Médecine, Basel.

In his Tractatus de cerebro which was published posthumously in 1680 he described a fissure which is named after him as Fissura Glaseri.

Glaser died from a fever infection caught from a patient he was treating.