Johann Gottlieb Walter

Johann Gottlieb Walter (1 July 1734 to 4 January 1818) was a German physician who specialised in human anatomy. He was born in Königsberg and studied there and in Berlin under Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach and Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn, and he was awarded a medical degree at Frankfurt (Oder) in 1757. After Meckel died he became professor of anatomy in Berlin in 1774. Walter started and kept up a large collection and museum of anatomical specimens, which the state bought for 100,000 thaler and which became the foundation of the anatomical-zoological museum of the Berlin Academy. He died in Berlin on 4 January 1818.