Johann Bernhard Wilbrand


Johann Bernhard Wilbrand was a German anatomist and naturalist. He was a proponent of Naturphilosophie.
In 1806 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Würzburg, then continued his education in Paris, where he attended lectures given by Georges Cuvier, André Marie Constant Duméril and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Afterwards, he served as a lecturer at the University of Münster, and in 1808 relocated to the University of Giessen as a professor of anatomy and physiology.
At the University of Giessen, he served as director of the botanical garden and zoological cabinets. In 1835 he received the title of Geheimer Medizinal-Rat. The plant genus Wilbrandia was named in his honor by Antônio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso.

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