Vincent Bochdalek

Vincent Alexander Bochdalek (1801 – February 3, 1883) was a Bohemian anatomist and pathologist.

Bochdalek was elected as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

[1] Bochdalek was born in Skripov u Bilovce in Moravia (1.801).

He obtained his doctorate in 1833 in Prague, where he was later professor of anatomy for several decades.

His son, Victor Bochdalek (1835–1868), became a prominent physician in his own right.