12 Facts About Friedrich Tiedemann

Friedrich Tiedemann FRS HFRSE was a German anatomist and physiologist.

Friedrich Tiedemann was an expert on the anatomy of the brain.

Friedrich Tiedemann was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1827.

Friedrich Tiedemann was born at Cassel in Prussia, the eldest son of Dietrich Friedrich Tiedemann, a philosopher and psychologist of considerable repute.

Friedrich Tiedemann studied medicine at Marburg, Bamberg and Wurzburg Universities from 1798 and graduated in 1802.

Friedrich Tiedemann was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1832 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1838.

Friedrich Tiedemann is buried in the Alter Sudfriedhof in Munich.

Friedrich Tiedemann devoted himself to the study of natural science, and upon moving to Paris, became an ardent follower of Georges Cuvier.

Friedrich Tiedemann further contested the notion that "there is any innate difference in the intellectual faculties of these two varieties of the human race" and attributed the perceived inferiority of black people to the deleterious effects of slavery and colonialism.

Friedrich Tiedemann was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1849.

Friedrich Tiedemann was influenced by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and accepted the transmutation of species.

One of Friedrich Tiedemann's sons, Gustav, was a casualty of the 1848 uprisings.