- Friedrich Bidder
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name = Friedrich Bidder
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birth_date =November 9 ,1810
birth_place = farm inLivonia ,Russian Empire todayLatvia
residence = Russian Empire
nationality = German
death_date = death date and age|1894|8|22|1810|11|9
death_place =Dorpat , Russian Empire todayEstonia
field = physiology and anatomy
work_institution = University of Dorpat
alma_mater = University of Dorpat
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
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footnotes =Friedrich Heinrich Bidder (
November 9 ,1810 -August 22 ,1894 ) was a Germanphysiologist andanatomist who was a native of Latvia. In 1834 he received his doctorate from theUniversity of Dorpat , where he became a professor of anatomy (1842), and physiology andpathology (1843). He was a corresponding member (1857) and honorary member (1884) of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (todayRussian Academy of Sciences ).Bidder is primarily remembered for his studies of
nutrition andgastric physiology. From 1847 to 1852 he performed physiological-chemical studies of digestive juices andmetabolism withchemist Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (1822-1894). Bidder also performed important researches involving thesympathetic nervous system withAlfred Wilhelm Volkmann (1801-1877) andspinal cord withKarl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829-1902).Bidder's name is associated with two anatomical structures:
* "Bidder's ganglia":Ganglia located at the lower end of theatrial septum ; sometimes called theventricular ganglia.
* "Bidder's organ ": A spherical, brownish reproductive organ of maletoad s.References
* [http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/103/5/637.pdf Physiological-Chemical Research of Bidder and Schmidt]
* Official site of Russian Academy of Sciences. [http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-49415.ln-en Bidder Fridrikh Genrikh]
* Russian: [http://www.vehi.net/brokgauz/index.html Биддер Генрих-Фридрих] .Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary . 1890—1907.Further reading
DSB
first=Charles
last=Culotta
title=Bidder, Friedrich Heinrich
volume=2
pages=123-125
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