Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton

He studied medicine at the University of Bonn, and subsequently taught anatomical drawing at the Berlin Academy of Arts (from 1827).

[1] After the death of Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781 to 1833), d'Alton was appointed his successor as professor of anatomy at the University of Halle.

[2] In 1838 he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.

[3] His better known works were in the fields of comparative anatomy, development history and teratology.

He is remembered for his masterful drawings of human and comparative anatomy.