# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-frederik-eschricht
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:54.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-frederik-eschricht"
name: "Daniel Frederik Eschricht"
slug: "daniel-frederik-eschricht"
description: "Daniel Frederik Eschricht was a Danish zoologist, physiologist, and anatomist known as an authority on whales. He was born in Copenhagen, and studied medicine at Frederiks Hospital, graduating in 1822. He was a student of François Magendie in Paris from 1824-1825, composing a thesis on cranial nerves, after which he studied with prominent European naturalists and anatomists, including Georges Cuvier. He joined the University of Copenhagen in 1829, becoming Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in 1836. The gray whale genus Eschrichtius was named for him a year after his death. In 1861, Eschricht dissected an orca and found thirteen common porpoises and fourteen seals inside. Jules Verne referred to the incident in the Sargasso chapter of his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas."
tagline: "Danish physician and zoologist (1798-1863)"
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birthDate: "1798-03-18"
deathDate: "1863-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump