Education
He studied medicine at Basel and Göttingen.
He studied medicine at Basel and Göttingen.
He died in Bilin, Bohemia at the age of 50. In 1863 he was named a professor of anatomy at Bern (1866/67, university rector), and in 1884 at the University of Prague as successor to Carl Toldt. He is best known for his contributions to anthropology, which include a new and valuable craniometric method.
He performed research of microcephaly, publishing Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Mikrocephalie (1874) as a result.
He also demonstrated the influence of atmospheric pressure on the several joints of the human body, and conducted significant studies involving the upper respiratory tract,
An enthusiastic mountain climber, he was co-author of Das Hochgebirge von Grindelwald (The high mountains of Grindelwald, 1865). "Aeby"s muscle": The depressor labii inferioris muscle.
"Aeby"s plane": A craniometric plane. lieutenant passes through the nasion and basion perpendicular to the median plane of the cranium.