The Tiedemann Library of Anatomy and Physiology
In 1854, increasing blindness forced Friedrich Tiedemann to resign his position at Heidelberg and sell the anatomical and physiological library which he had been collecting and using for over fifty years. Tiedemann sent copies of this printed catalogue of the holdings to the United States.
Tiedemann’s early research on the anatomy of the sea cucumber, sea urchin, and starfish earned him the 1812 prize of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
A commemorative bronze medal struck at the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate, in 1854, depicts Tiedemann in profile on the obverse and the starfish on the reverse, in recognition of his work.