Georg Ruge

Who was Georg Ruge?

Georg Ruge was a German anatomist and primatologist who was a native of Berlin.

In 1875 he earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin, and later became an assistant to Karl Gegenbaur in Heidelberg. At Heidelberg he performed important research involving primate morphology, particularly studies of its muscular system. In the mid-1880s he authored works that provided a foundation for comparative anatomical and phylogenetic studies on facial muscles in mammals.

In 1888 Ruge became a professor of anatomy at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1897 obtained the same position at the University of Zurich. Among his better known publications are the following works:

Beiträge zum Wachsthum des menschlichen Unterkiefers. dissertation

Eintheilung der Gesichtsmuskulatur.

Untersuchungen über die Gesichtsmuskulatur der Primaten, 1887—Studies of the facial muscles of primates.

Über die Gesichtsmuskulatur der Halbaffen.

Leitfaden für Präparirübungen

Über die peripherischen Gebilde des N. facialis bei Wirbelthieren.