Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

Johann Christophe Andreas Mayer (December 8, 1747 – November 5, 1801) was a German anatomist.

Mayer worked in Berlin and later Frankfurt. In 1788, he was the first European to recognize that fingerprints were unique to each individual.

His 1779 work ''Anatomische-Physiologische Abhandlung vom Gehirn, Rückmark, und Ursprung der Nerven'' mistakenly referred to the hippocampus as "hippopotamus", an error that was adopted by German anatomists in the following decades. Provided by Wikipedia