Johann Glaser

Johann Heinrich Glaser (1629 to 1675) was a Swiss anatomist and physician from Basel, remembered for careful dissections of animals and humans. The son of a well known painter and engraver, he studied medicine locally and in Geneva, then went to Paris, where he took up botany at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. He wrote a dissertation on colic pain in 1650, received his doctorate in 1661, and in 1665 was appointed a professor at the medical faculty of Basel, moving to the chair of anatomy and botany in 1667. His Tractatus de cerebro, published after his death in 1680, described a fissure that carries his name, the Glaserian fissure. He died of a fever caught from a patient he was treating.