Karl Bogislaus Reichert

Karl Bogislaus Reichert (December 20, 1811 – December 21, 1883) was a German anatomist who was born in Rastenburg (Rastembork) in East Prussia. He studied etiology and histology and received his doctorate in 1836. He was a student of Friedrich Schlemm and Johannes Peter Müller at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Institute and at the Charité in Berlin. Reichert taught at the universities of Dorpat (since 1843), Breslau (since 1853), and Berlin (since 1858), where he died.

Reichert is remembered for his work in embryology, his pioneer research in cell theory, and his anatomical studies of the brain and inner ear. With Ernst Gaupp he was co-architect of the Reichert-Gaupp theory concerning the origin of mammalian ossicles of the ear. His name is lent to the eponymous Reichert's cartilage, which is a cartilage in the mesenchyme of the second branchial arch in the embryo from which develop the styloid processes, the stylohyoid ligaments, and the lesser cornu of the hyoid bone.

Literary works

 * De embryonum arcubus sic dictis branchialibus. Berlin, 1836
 * Ueber die Visceralbogen der Wirbelthiere im Allgemeinen und deren Metamorphosen bei den Vögeln und Säugethieren. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin: 120-222, 1837
 * Das Entwicklungsleben im Wirbelthierreiche. 1840, Berlin
 * Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Zustandes der heutigen Entwicklungsgeschichte. 1843, Berlin
 * Der Bau des menschlichen Gehirns. 1859-1861, Leipzig