Alexander Ecker

Alexander Ecker (1816-1887)
Picture of a human embryo, from Ecker's "Icones physiologicae" (1851-1859).

Johann Alexander Ecker (10 July 1816 – 20 May 1887) was a German anthropologist and anatomist, born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the son of Johann Matthias Alexander Ecker (1766–1829), a professor at the University of Freiburg.[1]