14 Facts About Volcher Coiter

Volcher Coiter was a Dutch anatomist who established the study of comparative osteology and first described cerebrospinal meningitis.

Volcher Coiter studied the human eye and was able to demonstrate the replenishment of the aqueous humor.

Volcher Coiter illustrated his works with his own meticulously detailed drawings.

Volcher Coiter's father was a jurist and he studied initially under Regnerus Praedinius at the St Martin's School in Groningen.

Volcher Coiter spent some time in Tubingen, possibly studying under Leonhart Fuchs.

Volcher Coiter graduated in 1562 with a doctor of arts and medicine and returned to Bologna in 1563 as a teacher.

Volcher Coiter moved to Amberg serving as physician to the Duke of Bavaria before he became city physician of Nuremberg in 1569.

Volcher Coiter was often asked to conduct autopsies and dissect criminals who had been condemned to death.

Volcher Coiter published several works on human anatomy, wrote on the merits of medicinal baths, and wrote notes on the lectures of Falloppio.

Volcher Coiter's works included Externarum et Internarum Principalium Humani Corporis Partium Tabulae and De Avium Sceletis et Praecipius Musculis.

Volcher Coiter described the corrugator muscles above the eye which are sometimes called Coiter's muscles.

Volcher Coiter examined the development of chicken embryos inside eggs.

Volcher Coiter produced an early dichotomous classification key based on anatomical characters.

Volcher Coiter was said to have played the lute and taught Felix Platter to play the harp.