The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bock, Karl Ernst

BOCK, Karl Ernst, German anatomist: b. Leipzig 1809; d. 1874. He studied at the University of Leipzig, and at the outbreak of the Polish revolution he went to Warsaw, where he acted as hospital physician, first in the Polish service and later in the Russian. In 1839 he was elected extraordinary professor in the University of Leipzig. His title to fame rests chiefly on his &lsquo;Handbook of Human Anatomy.&rsquo;