Johann Gottlieb Walter

Who was Johann Gottlieb Walter?

Johann Gottlieb Walter was a German physician, specialising in human anatomy.

Walter was born in Königsberg. He studied in Königsberg and Berlin under Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach and Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn. He was awarded a medical degree at Frankfurt in 1757. After Meckel's death, he became professor of anatomy in Berlin in 1774.

Walter started and maintained a large collection and museum of anatomical samples, which was bought for 100.000 Thaler by the state, and became the foundation for the anatomical-zoological museum of the Berlin Academy.

Walter died in Berlin.