!!!Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von

b. Berlin (Germany), June 6, 1819, d, Vienna, Jan. 7, 1892, 
physiologist, grandfather of Ernst Theodor von  Bruecke. After 1849 
university professor in Vienna and head of the Institute of 
Physiology, one of the creators of modern phonetics, invented a 
phonetic alphabet; dealt with optics and the theory of colours.

!Works
Neue Methode der phonetischen Transkription, 1863; Ueber 
Ergaenzungsfarben und Kontrastfarben, 1865.

!Literature
G. Schmid, E. W. v. B. (1819-1892) als Wegbereiter der 
experimentellen Physiologie in Wien (Wiener klinische Wochenschriften 
104), 1992.


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