Johannes Dryander

Johannes Dryander, also known as Johannes Eichmann, was a German anatomist and professor of medicine of the sixteenth century. Born in Wetter, he studied anatomy and medicine at the universities of Paris and Erfurt from 1528 to 1534 and became professor of medicine at Marburg in 1535. He held two public dissections the following year and wrote the first text illustrating a Galenic dissection of the human brain, and his Anatomiae pars prior of 1537 marked a transition from medieval scholasticism toward the exact observation of Vesalius. His books carried detailed illustrations of the brain, skull and cranial sutures. His 1542 translation of Mundinus drew complaint from Vesalius because it copied part of the Tabulae sex.