O. E. H. Wucherer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

O. E. H. Wucherer

Brazilian physician

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1820

Place of Birth: Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Date of Death: 07-May-1873

Profession: scientist, physician, herpetologist

Nationality: Brazil, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About O. E. H. Wucherer

  • Otto Edward Henry Wucherer (7 July 1820 – 7 May 1873) was a Brazilian physician and naturalist, born to a Dutch mother and German father. He was born in Oporto, later moving to Hamburg, where he worked in a pharmacy.
  • He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1841 as a pupil of Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin.
  • He later practiced in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Lisbon.
  • In 1843 he relocated to Brazil, eventually settling as a doctor in Salvador, Bahia, where he lived until 1871.He discovered the filaria larvae in Bahia.
  • His name is associated with the roundworm genus Wuchereria, and he is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles, Elapomorphus wuchereri and Leposternon wuchereri.
  • He described the snake species Atractus guentheri and Xenopholis scalaris.He was co-founder of the journal Gazeta Médica da Bahia.

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