Education
He studied medicine at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1829.
anatomist physicist physiologist university professor
He studied medicine at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1829.
He was a younger brother to physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) and physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891). From 1836 he served as prosector in the anatomical institute at the University of Leipzig, where in 1838 he became privat-docent with a thesis involving physiological studies on the "galvano-magnetic phenomena" in humans. From 1847 to 1871 he was an associate professor at Leipzig.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.