Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause (15 December 1797 – 8 June 1868) was a German anatomist born in Hanover.
In 1818 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Göttingen, and later attained the chair of anatomy at the surgical school in Hanover.
Krause was one of the first anatomists to make extensive use of the microscope.
He also described the accessory tear glands of the eye.
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