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German anatomist
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Greifswald
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Berlin
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53 years
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Johann Christophe Andreas Mayer was a German anatomist born in December 1747 and died in November 1801. He worked in Berlin and later Frankfurt. In 1788, he was the first European to recognize that fingerprints were unique to each individual.
He was also known to have miscalled the hippocampus the hippopotamus, which was adopted for some years before being rectified.
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